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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:TA-4J Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:153505 USN
    Compressed ID:Douglas TA-4J sn 153505 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Brasher Falls, New York

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TA-4J.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 153505.

    June 1993

    Transferred to VT-7, Meridian Naval Air Station, MS.
    Operated with markings: A-753

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Transported by ground.
    Moved from Pensacola, FL, to Brasher Falls, NY, by Worldwide Aircraft Recovery Ltd.

    September 2014

    To Brasher Falls, NY.
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    From Unknown to 17 September 2014

    Reassembled.

    29 September 2014


    Photographer: Bernie Stopper
    Notes: Photo taken in Brasher Fall NY shortly after arrival for static display Sept 2014.

    Bernie Stopper reports (15 October 2014): The AC will be mounted on a fixture designed by Clarkson University in an ascending flight configuration and bank angle. Mounting is pending final funding and fixture fabrication. Mounting is expected to be completed in 2015.
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