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    Airframe Family: Douglas A4D/A-4 Skyhawk
    Latest Model:A-4A Skyhawk
    Last Military Serial:142226 USN
    Construction Number:11480
    Compressed ID:Douglas A-4A sn 142226 USN cn 11480...
    Latest Owner or Location:Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A4D-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 142226.

    1962

    Redesignated as A-4A.

    By May 1990

    To Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    18 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    June 1995


    Photographer: A J Savage via Wayne Gomes Collection

    To National Museum of the Marine Corps, Quantico, Triangle, VA.
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    Graeme Harney comments (23 January 2022): This photo depicted as taken in June 1995 is not the same aircraft that is the subject of this article but rather is an A-4A variant which was the initial production version of the type. This is defined by some obvious differences to the subject version including a rudder with an external skin rather than the later externally ribbed version, a lack of an in-flight refuelling probe and flush to fuselage engine air intakes.
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    To Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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    24 May 2008


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: Taken at the Carolinas Aviation Museum (Old site). Charlotte-Douglas IAP. As of 2019, this plane has moved to the new site of the museum indoors. Just up the road from the old site. Markings remain the same.

    To Sullenberge Aviation Museum, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC.
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