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The piston-engined, propeller-driven Skyraider was designed during World War II to meet United States Navy requirements for a carrier-based, single-seat, long-range, high performance dive/torpedo bomber, to follow on from earlier aircraft such as the Douglas SBD Dauntless, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and the Grumman TBF Avenger. [5]
The Royal Navy received 50 AD-4Ws [1] which were given the designation Skyraider AEW.1 These were used from 1951 until 1962. Fleet Air Arm. 849 Naval Air Squadron; 778 Naval Air Squadron (RNAS Culdrose, aircrew training 1951-1952)
Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider on display at the Air Zoo Douglas AD-5W Skyraider at Bremerton National Airport. 125739 – United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, NAWS China Lake (North) in Ridgecrest, California. [36] 126924 – Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California. [37] [38] 127888 – Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan. [39] AD-4W
The Douglas Skyraider had been in service since the early 1950s, but was rapidly becoming obsolete. In the late 1950s, the Royal Navy operated the piston-engined Douglas A-1 Skyraider from its aircraft carriers in the AEW role. However, the Skyraider was a design that originated during the Second World War. It entered service with the RN in ...
Douglas Skyraider AEW.1 taking off from HMS Albion. The squadron reformed at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose on 7 July 1953, being equipped with ex United States Navy Douglas Skyraider AD4W as an Airborne Early Warning unit, from 778 Naval Air Squadron.
On 1 April 1924 the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force was created as a distinct component of the RAF, which existed until 24 May 1939 when command of the Fleet Air Arm was transferred back to Royal Navy control. Coastal Command patrol aircraft, including most large seaplanes, remained with the RAF despite their operations in a naval environment.
A Douglas Skyraider AEW.1 of the Royal Navy's No. 849 Squadron taking off from HMS Albion. She sailed from Portsmouth in March 1971 for the Far East, under the command of Captain James Jungius, RN. She paid a brief visit to Ascension Island before visiting Durban in April 1971.
An AD-4 Skyraider of VA-115 crashes aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). 12 December A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of Attack Squadron 115 "Arabs", Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11), bursts into flame as the engine breaks off upon landing aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). The Skyraider had been hit by enemy flak over ...