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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)
The two squadrons began receiving their aircraft in March 1949 and conducted their carrier qualifications from 2 to 7 May. VA-45 became the only Mauler squadron to complete qualifications without any accidents. They made a short deployment aboard the carrier from 1 to 9 September and began converting back to Skyraiders the following month. [14]
The Kitty Hawk, CVW-5 and VFA-195 firstly arrived at Hawaii on 1 July, before taking part in RIMPAC 2008 on 8 July. They then returned back to Hawaii before departing for San Diego on 1 August 2008. VFA-195 and the rest of CVW-5 flew off the Kitty Hawk on 6 August before it arrived on 7 August in San Diego. This was the first time since 1986 ...
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Douglas A-1 Skyraiders of the 1st and 602nd Special Operations Squadrons at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base during the Vietnam War. The 602nd Fighter Squadron (Commando) was activated in May 1964 for the Vietnam War, and along with the 1st Air Commando Squadron, was a part of the 34th Tactical Group.