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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:EA-3A Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:130361 USN
    Construction Number:9262
    Compressed ID:Douglas EA-3A sn 130361 USN cn 9262...
    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 A3D-1.

    31 March 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 130361.

    31 March 1955

    Transferred to El Segundo.

    30 April 1955

    Transferred to OandR, Norfolk.

    5 July 1955

    Converted to an A3D-1Q.

    16 January 1956

    Transferred to NATC LANT, Pax River.

    13 April 1956

    Transferred to OandR Norfolk.

    6 September 1956

    Transferred to VQ-2, Port Lyautey.

    21 March 1960

    Transferred to NATC, RDT and E, Pax River.

    1962

    Redesignated as YEA-3A.

    9 April 1963

    Converted to an EA-3A.

    10 April 1963

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 130361.

    25 January 1964

    Transferred to BWR FR, Baltimore.

    25 January 1964

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army.

    27 March 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 130361.

    27 March 1969

    Transferred to Naval Air Testing Center, Patuxent River NAS.

    8 September 1969

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2A0039.

    31 December 1970

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    25 September 1980


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1980 photo at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ - of a Douglas YEA-3A Skywarrior

    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air Museum, AZ

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At The Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: W, NAVY, 130361, W
    Finished in the markings of the Naval Air Testing Center, Patuxent River NAS, in 1969.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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