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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]
Svensk Flygtjänst AB operated 14 ex-Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Skyraiders, modified for use as target tugs for the Swedish Air Force. [ 1 ] Skyraider AEW.1s of 778 NAS in flight.
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)
VA-215 A-1H Skyraiders fly over USS Hancock, 1963. VA-215, nicknamed the Barn Owls, was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established 22 June 1955, and disestablished on 31 August 1967. A second VA-215 was established on 1 March 1968 and disestablished on 30 September 1977. [1]
{{Information |Description={{en|1=This Douglas A-1E was severely damaged in combat in South Vietnam. It is the aircraft that was flown by Maj. Bernard Fisher on March 10, 1966, when he rescued a fellow pilot shot down over South Vietnam, a deed for which
A-1 Skyraider, a United States Air Force/Navy single engine propeller driven attack aircraft; Alcock Scout also known as Alcock A.1, a one-off 1917 British fighter biplane assembled from elements of other fighter aircraft; Alter A.1, a 1917 German single-seat biplane fighter aircraft; Ansaldo A.1 Balilla, a 1917 Italian fighter aircraft
AMU-3 would perform maintenance on A-1 Sky Raiders, to be replaced by A-4 Sky Hawks, which was replaced by TA-7C and TA-7Z Corsair II aircraft. The TA-7Z Corsair II was an in-house avionics and airframe modification to support the squadrons electronic warfare mission, being capable of carrying a suite of electronic warfare pods.
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).