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    Airframe Family: Grumman A-6 Intruder / EA-6 Prowler
    Latest Model:KA-6D Intruder
    Last Military Serial:151826 USN
    Construction Number:I-129
    Compressed ID:Grumman KA-6D sn 151826 USN cn I-12...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-6A.

    1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151826.

    1966

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 65 (VA-65), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: NL-410

    From 12 May 1966 to 3 December 1966

    Deployed aboard USS Constellation for combat in South Vietnam.

    From December 1966 to 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 42 (VA-42), NAS Oceana.
    Operated with markings: AD-564

    From 1967 to After June 1970

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 35 (VA-35), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: NL-502

    Circa 1971

    Converted to a KA-6D.

    1971

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 115 (VA-115), Carrier Air Wing Five, NAS Whidbey Island, WA.
    Operated with markings: NF-515

    1973

    Markings Applied: NF-524

    September 1974

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 145 (VA-145), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

    By 1977

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 52 (VA-52), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.
    Operated with markings: NH-523

    1979

    Markings Applied: NL-523

    1981

    Markings Applied: NL-516

    1983

    Markings Applied: NL-514

    By 1990

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 85 (VA-85), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AB-522

    From Circa December 1990 to April 1991

    Deployed on USS America for Operation Desert Storm.

    By November 1991

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    After November 1998

    Loaned to NAS Alameda, CA.

    9 November 2007


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Blue Angels Homecoming, NAS Pensacola FL

    October 2008

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
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    Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    WikiMapia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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