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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4C Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:148571 USN
    Construction Number:12764
    Last Civil Registration:N401FS
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4C sn 148571 USN cn 12764...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    September 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148571.

    1962

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    25 November 1974

    To United States Navy Owner Et Al, Newport Beach, CA with new c/r N401FS.

    By 1976

    To Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA with new c/r N53996.

    From January 1977 to By 1981

    To US Navy/Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA with new c/r N401FS.

    23 October 1981

    Assigned to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for storage.

    23 October 1981

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 3A0530.

    1982

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    8 July 1983

    Civil registration, N401FS, cancelled.

    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air Museum.

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Pima Air and Space Museum, AZ

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Pima museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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