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The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly designated AD before the 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations) is an American single-seat attack aircraft in service from 1946 to the early 1980s, which served during the Korean War and Vietnam War.
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.
AD-4NA (A-1D) 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 ...
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 ...
U.S. Navy Douglas AD-6 Skyraider aircraft (BuNo 139731, 139751, 139753, 139783) from Attack Squadron VA-42 Green Pawns in flight. VA-42 was assigned to Air Task Group 181 (ATG-181) from 1955 to 1957. The A-1H (AD-6) 139731 was later lost while in service with VA-152, Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16) , USS Oriskany (CVA-34), on 14 October 1966. 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 ...
The Navy employed this designator for squadrons equipped with all-weather variants of the Douglas AD Skyraider. It was discontinued with the demise of the wide-body Skyraiders from the Navy inventory, and squadrons equipped with newer all-weather attack aircraft such as Grumman A-6 Intruder received "plain" VA designators. VAH Heavy Attack Squadron