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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:A-1H Skyraider
    Last Military Serial:139606 USN
    Construction Number:10838
    Last Civil Registration:N39606
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-1H sn 139606 USN cn 10838...
    Latest Owner or Location:Cavanaugh Air Llc, Addison, TX

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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 139606.

    Redesignated as A-1H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force.

    To unknown owner with c/r N39158.

    To unknown owner with c/r NX39606.

    To Museum of Flying, Santa Monica Municipal Airport (south-West side), Los Angeles, CA.
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    July 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro, CA Open House.

    April 1992


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Air Show, CA

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California.

    4 December 1997


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California.

    17 October 2000

    To Warbird Aircraft Llc, San Diego, CA with new c/r N39606.

    Based at Ramona Airport, Oceanside, CA.
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    Transferred to a museum.

    Markings Applied: AH/500

    10 December 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX39606 (SKYRAIDER AD-6, 139606) issued.

    2008

    12 April 2010

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX39606 (SKYRAIDER AD-6, 139606) issued.

    17 May 2016

    To unknown owner with c/r N39606.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Addison, TX.

    25 July 2016

    To Cavanaugh Air Llc, Addison, TX keeping c/r N39606.

    5 April 2017


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    5 April 2017


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    22 July 2018


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Arriving at Oshkosh AirVenture 2018

    25 July 2018

    25 July 2018


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: AirVenture 2018

    15 March 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.

    4 April 2019


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Sun-N-Fun, Lakeland, FL.
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