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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:A-1H Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:52-137552 USAF
    Construction Number:10628
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-1H sn 52-137552 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:602nd SOS, 56th SOW, Nakhon Phanom RTNB, Thailand

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-6 by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137552.

    By 1957

    Transferred to VA-96.
    Operated with markings: NC-407

    By 1962

    Transferred to VA-115.
    Operated with markings: NH-502

    17 September 1962

    Redesignated as A-1H.

    By 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-137552.

    By August 1968

    Transferred to 6th SOS, 633D SOW, Pleiku AB, South Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: ET

    August 1968


    Photographer: Dr. Glenn Thoreson
    Notes: Photo taken at Da Nang AB, South Vietnam.

    By December 1969

    Transferred to 602nd SOS, 56th SOW, Nakhon Phanom RTNB, Thailand.
    Operated with markings: TT

    29 December 1969

    Shot down.
    Was lost during a night armed reconnaissance mission in southern Laos. 1Lt Frisbie (call sign Firefly 13) found several trucks on a road near Ban Dong Pang, 45 miles southeast of Nakhon Phanom. As he dived on the target his aircraft was hit by 37mm anti-aircraft fire. He maintained control and headed back towards Nakhon Phanom but was forced to eject about eight miles south of the airfield and had to be picked up by one of NKPs HH-3Es.
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     Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings by Patrick Martin
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Vietnam Air Losses
    Wikipedia
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