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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4F Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:154986 USN
    Construction Number:13802
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4F sn 154986 USN cn 13802...
    Latest Owner or Location:Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-4F.

    1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 154986.

    From 30 January 1974 to 14 August 1986

    Transferred to Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels #6

    Circa January 1974


    Photographer: Robert Adams
    Notes: Airshow at NAS Atlanta. Blue Angel #6

    10 June 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-4F Skyhawk Blue Angels number 6 on the flight-line at the 1976 Reading Airshow.

    By April 1978

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels #1

    By September 1980

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels #3

    5 September 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    By July 1984

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels #5
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     A-4 Skyhawk.org by Skyhawk Association
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     Robert Adams
    Glenn Chatfield
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