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    Airframe Family: Douglas BT2D/AD/A-1 Skyraider
    Latest Model:Skyraider AEW.1
    Last Military Serial:WV106 RN
    Construction Number:7392
    Latest Owner or Location:Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve collection - Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AD-4W by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA.

    April 1950

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124068.

    20 February 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Navy with s/n WV106.

    20 February 1953

    Redesignated as Skyraider AEW.1.

    1964

    Placed on display with RNAS Culdrose.

    1976

    Placed on display with Flambards Holiday Village (formerly known as Cornwall Aero Park), Helston, Cornwall, England.
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    27 July 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: WV106 / 427 / C at Flambards Holiday Village

    21 March 1997

    Placed on display with RNAS Culdrose.

    6 December 2000

    To Fleet Air Arm Museum-Reserve collection-Cobham-Hall, RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: On display at Public Open Day of the Fleet Air Arm Museum - Reserve Collection at Cobham Hall, RNAS Yeovilton in the UK

    23 October 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Cobham Hall Open Day

    23 October 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: Alan Kilham
    Notes: Noted in store outside the Fleet Air Arms storage facility, Cobham Hall, at RNAS Yeovilton
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
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     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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