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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:KA-3B Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:138944 USN
    Construction Number:10805
    Compressed ID:Douglas KA-3B sn 138944 USN cn 1080...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Lexington, Corpus Christi, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KA-3B.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 138944.

    12 February 1976

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2A0111.

    14 October 1978


    Photographer: Phillip Dawe
    Notes: 138944 - KA-3B Skywarrior - ex-US Navy / Navy Munitions Command - MASDC / Davis Monthan AFB

    By October 1983

    Transferred to VAQ-34, NAS Point Mugu, CA.
    Operated with markings: GD-220

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to USS Lexington, Corpus Christi, TX.
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    2 April 2012


    Photographer: Ernie Szelepcsenyi
    Notes: On display aboard the USS Lexington aircraft carrier museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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