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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4F Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:154180 USN
    Construction Number:13637
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4F sn 154180 USN cn 13637...
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as an A-4F.

    March 1967

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 154180.

    April 1967

    Transferred to Long Beach Naval Plant Representative Office, CA.

    21 May 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 125 (VA-125), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    11 September 1967

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 93 (VA-93), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    From 16 December 1967 to 1970

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 23 (VA-23), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    From 28 December 1967 to 17 August 1968

    Deployed aboard USS Ticonderoga for combat in Vietnam.

    From 19 January 1970 to December 1975

    Transferred to Attack Squadron 22 (VA-22), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    From 2 April 1970 to 12 November 1970

    Deployed aboard USS Bon Homme Richard for combat in Vietnam.

    19 December 1975

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 43 (VF-43), NAS Oceana, VA.

    From 23 May 1980 to November 1986

    Transferred to Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels, 4

    From 23 May 1980 to November 1986

    Due to high airframe time, this plane flew only solos, bearing BA numbers 2, 3, 4 and 6 during its time with the Blue Angels.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Front Range Airport, Watkins CO

    13 November 1986

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    July 1987

    Transported by ground. Delivered to Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    1991


    Photographer: Wayne Gomes
    Notes: Photographed at the National Naval Museum in Pensacola, FL.

    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo taken in the T.A.Wilson Great Gallery at Museum of Flight, Seattle
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Blue Angels Alumni
    Blue Angels Alumni by Len Mozey
    Museum of Flight
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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