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    Airframe Family: Grumman A-6 Intruder / EA-6 Prowler
    Latest Model:A-6E Intruder
    Last Military Serial:158794 USN
    Construction Number:I-530
    Compressed ID:Grumman A-6E sn 158794 USN cn I-530...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-6E.

    1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158794.

    It has flown with nine Navy squadrons including bombing missions over Iraq during the first Gulf War.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    September 1995

    Placed on display with Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    The plane is painted in the scheme of a VA-52 aircraft from the USS Kitty Hawk. That A-6 Intruder, named Viceroy 502, was lost over Vietnam in 1972.

    April 1997


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington.

    5 October 1998


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In BFI.

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Outside The Museum of Flight, Seattle

    5 October 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Seattle - Boeing Field, Washington, U.S.A
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    Terry Fletcher
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