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The AD-5 was significantly widened, allowing two crew to sit side-by-side (this was not the first multiple-crew variant, the AD-1Q being a two-seater and the AD-3N a three-seater); it also came in a four-seat night-attack version, the AD-5N. The AD-6 was an improved AD-4B with improved low-level bombing equipment, and the final production ...
F9F-5 Panther – Apr 1953; F9F-4 Panther and F9F-6 Cougar – The squadron operated a few of these models in the mid-1950s. F9F-8B Cougar – Apr 1956; F9F-8 Cougar – Aug 1956; AD-5 Skyraider – Dec 1958; AD-6 Skyraider – Dec 1958 (AD-6 designation was changed to A-1H in 1962.) AD-7 Skyraider – Mar 1959 (AD-7 designation was changed to ...
VA-25 AD-6 operating from USS Midway The Douglas A-1 Skyraider , a single-seat attack bomber was operated by eight countries outside of the main user - the United States. Operators
Known as "The World Famous Fighting Tigers", VA-65 was one of the last medium attack squadrons to fly the A-6 Intruder and the A-1 Skyraider. It was the second squadron to be designated VA-65, the first VA-65 was redesignated from VA-6B on 27 July 1948 and would be redesignated as VA-25 on 1 July 1959.
The AD-5 Skyraider, redesignated the A-1 in 1962, saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars as an attack bomber, close air support plane and search-and-recovery aircraft, according to the ...
VA-176 was established on 4 June 1955 and equipped with the Douglas AD-6 Skyraider and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. A year later the first deployment followed on board the aircraft carrier USS Randolph (CVA-15) to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Air Task Group 2 (ATG-2). In 1958, the squadron was assigned to Carrier Air Group 17 (CVG-17 ...
5 August 1964: VA-145 participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, air strikes against North Vietnam in retaliation for the attacks on the American destroyers USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August. The squadron’s Skyraiders, along with other aircraft from the air wing, struck torpedo boats and other targets at Hon Gay ...
Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a 1945 American attack aircraft; ... Sky Raider, a 1978 arcade game by Atari, Inc., see List of Atari, Inc. games (1972–1984) See also