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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. The Skyraider had an unusually long career, remaining in front-line service well into the Jet Age (when most piston -engine attack or fighter ...
List of Douglas A-1 Skyraider operators. Appearance. hide. VA-25 AD-6 operating from USS Midway. The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a single-seat attack bomber was operated by eight countries outside of the main user - the United States.
AD-4NA (A-1D) Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider on display at the Air Zoo. Douglas AD-5W Skyraider at Bremerton National Airport. 125739 – United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, NAWS China Lake (North) in Ridgecrest, California. [42] 126924 – Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.
16 June 1967 - 31 January 1968: VA-152 is the second-to-last US Navy attack squadron to fly the single-seat A-1H/J Skyraider in combat, as part of Carrier Air Wing 16 (embarked aboard the Oriskany ), during the squadron's and carrier's third combat cruise to Southeast Asia. VA-152 loses one aircraft and its pilot during this last A-1 cruise, on ...
During the Vietnam War, thousands of U.S. aircraft were lost to antiaircraft artillery (AAA), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and fighter interceptors ( MiG )s. The great majority of U.S. combat losses in all areas of Southeast Asia were to AAA. The Royal Australian Air Force also flew combat and airlift missions in South Vietnam, as did the South Vietnamese Republic of Vietnam Air Force ...
Persian Gulf War. Attack Squadron 65 (VA-65), nicknamed The World Famous Fighting Tigers, was an attack squadron of the United States Navy. The squadron was established as Torpedo Squadron VT-74 in 1945, redesignated as VA-2B in 1946, as VA-25 on 1 September 1948, and finally redesignated VA-65 on 1 July 1959. It was disestablished in 1993.
Attack Squadron 176 (VA-176), known as the "Thunderbolts", was a United States Navy carrier-based medium attack squadron that saw combat service in the Vietnam War and later in 1983 in both Grenada and Lebanon . History [ edit] VA-176 was established on 4 June 1955 and equipped with the Douglas AD-6 Skyraider and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet.
March 21: Flying the A-1 Skyraider. Vietnam War veteran John Larrison will discuss conducting some of the first A-1 Skyraider missions over Vietnam. April 18: Tomcats Over the Gulf.