![]() |
![]() |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finding visuals... Social media... ![]() ![]() ![]() Site navigation... |
Search For Airframes Now Search - Index - Gallery - Reports - Lists - AV Needs You! This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Airframes Database depends on user contributions to stay current. If you have any news about this airframe or photos which you would like to share please do so by using the links above. The more you and others share the better the database becomes! |
Dates |
Event |
|
1955 |
Constructed as an AD-5W by Douglas at El Segundo, California, USA. |
|
30 June 1955 |
Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 135178. |
|
June 1962 |
Redesignated as EA-1E. |
|
By 1964 |
Transferred to Detachment R, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 (VAW-11), CVS-33 USS Kearsarge. |
|
By 1969 |
Transferred to Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, NAS Pensacola, FL. |
|
17 June 1971 |
Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy. |
|
From 18 June 1971 to 1974 |
To USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico, VA. |
|
1974 |
To Doug Champlin Collection, Enid, OK with new c/r N62466. |
|
1975 |
To John Downing keeping c/r N62466. |
|
From 1976 to 1981 |
To Don Hendrick, SC keeping c/r N62466. |
|
15 May 1980 |
Certificate of airworthiness for N62466 (EA-1E, 135178) issued. |
|
1983 |
To Airlift, Inc keeping c/r N62466. |
|
July 1983 |
To Paul Oconnell, Dona, TX keeping c/r N62466. |
|
From January 1984 to 1989 |
To Peter W. Thelen, Fort Lauderdale, FL keeping c/r N62466. |
|
11 November 1984 |
||
From 1986 to 1987 |
Loaned to Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston, TX, Apr. |
|
Based at Lone Star Flight Museum, Scholes Field, Galveston, TX. |
||
From 1990 to 2002 |
To Patrick F. Taylor/Taylor Energy Co, New Orleans, LA, keeping c/r N62466. |
|
27 October 1990 |
|
|
February 2005 |
Based at Eric Downing Private Collection, Creve Coeur Airport, Saint Louis, MO. |
|
26 August 2006 |
|
|
8 February 2007 |
To Midwest Wild Relics Refuge Inc, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466. |
|
18 June 2011 |
|
|
18 June 2011 |
|
|
18 June 2011 |
|
|
1 January 2015 |
Certificate of airworthiness for NX62466 (EA-1E, 135178) issued. |
|
Circa 1 January 2015 |
To Downing Eric, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466. |
|
10 February 2016 |
To Midwest Wild Relics Refuge Inc, Saint Charles, MO keeping c/r N62466. |
|
3 April 2025 |
To Vintage Flying Machines Inc, Huntington, IN keeping c/r N62466. |
|
![]() | This airframe dossier is based on unreviewed imported data. If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor. |
Credits Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier... Internet Sources Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List EAA Waarbiirds of America Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe Warbird Registry by Scott Rose Individual Contributors Glenn Chatfield |
Tell Others About this Airframe Dossier |
| ||||
Forum Link: | [URL=https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=64851][IMG]/home/users/web/b1393/nf.aerialvisuals/public_html/AV/Support/Logo_20x20.jpg[/IMG]Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Douglas EA-1E Skyraider, s/n 135178 USN, c/n 10255, c/r N62466[/URL] | |||
Direct Link: | https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=64851 | |||
Copyright 1993-2025 www.m.AerialVisuals.ca The Aerial Visuals pages are best viewed with a screen at least 800 pixels wide. In case you are wondering Aerial Visuals is a huge fan Google Chrome. If you do not have Chrome installed why not? Aerial Visuals requires cookies and Javascript to function correctly. Please ensure these features are enabled in your browser. Aerial Visuals is ![]() |