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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4L Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:147671 USN
    Construction Number:12435
    Last Civil Registration:N142AT
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4L sn 147671 USN cn 12435...
    Latest Owner or Location:ATW Aviation / Bill Muzsala, Marana Northwest Regional Airport (formerly Avra Valley Airport), Marana, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147671.

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    Converted to an A-4L.

    18 February 1976

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 3A474.

    28 August 2000

    To DMI Aviation, Tucson, AZ.

    To SW Florida Defense Antiquities Museum Inc, Fort Myers, FL with new c/r N142AT (MCDONL DGLS ATL-A4-L, ATL-147671).

    To Aircraft Restoration and Marketing, Davis-Monthan AFB (West Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    10 March 2010

    Civil registration, N142AT, cancelled.

    By 8 September 2011

    To ATW Aviation/Bill Muzsala, Marana Northwest Regional Airport (formerly Avra Valley Airport), Marana, AZ.
    Only the tail section survives here.
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    By 8 September 2011

    Markings Applied: 7671, MARINES, 3A474, MB

    8 September 2011


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