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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.
English: A U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider (BuNo 139700) of Attack Squadron 115 (VA-115) "Arabs" in flight over the Gulf of Tonkin. VA-115 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) for a deployment to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 19 October 1965 to 13 June 1966.
English: A U.S. Air Force Douglas A-1E (s/n 52-135206) from the 1st Special Operations Squadron, 56th Special Operations Wing, in flight, circa in the late 1960s. This aircraft was a former U.S. Navy EA-1E (before 1962: AD-5W) radar warning aircraft (BuNo 135206) that was converted to an attack plane.
Douglas A-1 Skyraider Wiley Coyote at the 2019 Fort Worth Alliance Air Show Airworthy AD-1. 9257 – based at the Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, Illinois. [8] [9] AD-4. 123827 – based at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. [10] [11] 126997 – privately owned in Houston, Texas. [12] AD-4N (A-1D)
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 ...
A year later, this was the aircraft flown by Maj Bernard Fisher on 10 March 1966 when he rescued a fellow pilot shot down over South Vietnam, a deed for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The airplane, severely damaged in further combat in South Vietnam, came to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in 1968 for preservation ...
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (AD-4NA, 126965) is flying. This aircraft is owned by Heritage Flight Museum. Date: 1 September 2012, 17:06: Source: Douglas A-1 Skyraider (AD-4NA, 126965) Author: Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany
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