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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4L Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:147787 USN
    Construction Number:12551
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4L sn 147787 USN cn 12551...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-2N.

    Circa June 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147787.

    July 1962

    Transferred to Headquarters (and) Maintenance Squadron 14 (H (and) MS-14), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    1962

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 225 (VMA-225), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.

    18 September 1962

    Redesignated as A-4C.

    Transferred to Navy Attack Squadron 94 (VA-94), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    Deployed to Southeast Asia for combat in Vietnam through 1965, aboard four different carriers.

    1966

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 211 (VMA-211), MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
    Deployed to MCAB Chu Lai, Vietnam.

    1966

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 121 (VMA-121), MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
    Deployed to MCAB Chu Lai, Vietnam.

    1966

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223), MCAB Chu Lai, Vietnam.

    1967

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311), MCAB Chu Lai, Vietnam.

    1967

    Transferred to Navy Attack Squadron 22 (VA-22), USS Ranger.

    1967

    Transferred to Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214), MCAS El Toro, CA.

    1968

    Transferred to Navy Attack Squadron 873 (VA-873), USNR, NAS Alameda, CA.

    September 1968

    Transferred to Navy Attack Squadron 95 (VA-95), USNR, NAS Alameda, CA.

    February 1970

    Converted to an A-4L.

    From July 1970 to 1976

    Transferred to Navy Attack Squadron 204 (VA-204), NAS Memphis, TN.

    1976

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, TN.
    Assigned as a ground trainer.

    4 January 1978

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By April 1992

    Loaned to USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park, Mobile, AL.
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    9 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 October 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    4 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    26 September 2023


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
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