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    Airframe Family: Douglas A-3/A3D Skywarrior / B-66 Destroyer
    Latest Model:EA-3B Skywarrior
    Last Military Serial:144852 USN
    Construction Number:12098
    Compressed ID:Douglas EA-3B sn 144852 USN cn 1209...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A3D-2Q.

    December 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144852.

    Circa December 1959

    Transferred to VQ-2, NAS Rota, Spain.
    Operated with markings: JQ--5

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as EA-3B.

    By 1976

    Markings Applied: 18 VAQ-2

    Circa 1976


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Greenham Common.

    31 July 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: EA-3B Skywarrior of VQ-2 based at Naval Air Station Rota in Spain on display at the 1976 International Air Tattoo at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire.

    25 June 1977

    Placed on display at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, from VQ-2 at the International Air Tattoo.

    Taken on Strength/Charge.
    Damaged due to failed catapult hook during carrier launch Sep 1987. Not repaired, eventually sent to AMARC.

    1 November 1990

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2A0127.

    23 June 2002


    Photographer: Simon Wallwork

    By 2005

    Scrapped.
    Aft fuselage used for repair of 144856.
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    Peter Nicholson
    Ken Videan
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