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    Airframe Family: Grumman A-6 Intruder / EA-6 Prowler
    Latest Model:EA-6B ICAP II Block 82 Prowler
    Last Military Serial:162939 USMC
    Construction Number:P122
    Compressed ID:Grumman EA-6B ICAP II Block 82 sn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an EA-6B ICAP II Block 82.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 162939.

    Transferred to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
    Operated with markings: CY-16, Playboy Bunny logo

    29 August 1987


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At NAS Glenview, IL

    28 July 1988


    Photographer: Tom Tessier

    From Circa August 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Deployed for combat in Operation Desert Storm.

    By April 1993

    Markings Applied: CY-04

    By 2000

    Transferred to Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4 (VMAQ-4), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
    Operated with markings: RM-04

    By May 2006

    Transferred to Electronic Attack Squadron 142 (VAQ-142), NAS Whidbey Island, WA.
    Operated with markings: 563

    By February 2010

    Markings Applied: NL-522

    22 March 2011

    Transferred to 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), Tucson, AZ.

    7 June 2012

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
     Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Flickr
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    The Free Library
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
    Tom Tessier
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