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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:KA-3B Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:138929 USN
    Construction Number:10790
    Compressed ID:Douglas KA-3B sn 138929 USN cn 1079...
    Latest Owner or Location:VAQ-208

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A3D-2.

    March 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 138929.

    March 1957

    To VAH-9.

    By 1961

    Markings Applied: AC-503

    July 1962

    Redesignated as A-3B.

    28 May 1965

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).
    To MASDC from NAF Litchfield Park, AZ.

    16 September 1968

    To NARF Alameda, CA.

    September 1968

    Converted to a KA-3B.

    1969

    Transferred to VAQ-130.

    1970

    Markings Applied: VR-77

    Circa 1971

    Transferred to VAQ-208.
    Operated with markings: AF-652

    1972

    Transferred to VAQ-308.
    Operated with markings: ND-632

    By 1978

    Transferred to VAQ-208.
    Operated with markings: AF-612

    1978


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF Retire
    Notes: Photo taken at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska

    1978


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF Retire
    Notes: Photo taken at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska

    1978


    Photographer: Ray Hanson

    27 January 1980

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Crashed at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Had requested practice PAR approach. A/C disappeared from the radar screen. A-3 impacted cornfield and disintegrated. 2 crewmen killed.
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