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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 ...
VA-25 AD-6 operating from USS ... The Royal Navy received 50 AD-4Ws [1] which were given the designation Skyraider AEW.1 These were used from 1951 until 1962.
AD-4W. 126867 – based at the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon. [21] [22] AD-5 (A-1E) Douglas AD-5 Skyraider on display at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum. 132683 – based at the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [23] [24] AD-5W (EA-1E) 135152 – based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum ...
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 ...
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-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 ...