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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...