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SKYRAIDER/Bu. 135188
Douglas A-1 Skyraider
Bureau #: 135188
Construction #: 10265
Civil Registration:
  N188BP
  N188RH
   Model(s):
  AD-5W Skyraider
  EA-1E Skyraider
  A-1E Skyraider
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2018
History:
Delivered to US Navy as Bu. 135188.
  • BOC: June 23, 1955.
  • Assigned to Composite Squadron 11 (VC-11), NAS North Island, CA, ???- December 1959.
    • Deployed aboard USS Wasp, USS Hornet, and USS Shangri La.
    • Coded as RR-7XX.
  • Transferred into storage at NAF Litchfield Park, AZ, December 12, 1959.
  • Redesignated as EA-1E.
  • SOC: March 1963.
  • Returned to service, 1965.
  • Assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 33 (VAW-33), NAS Quonset Point, RI.
    • Deployed about USS Intrepid and USS Wasp.
    • Overhauled on USS Wasp, Radome removed.
    • Redesignated as A-1E.
  • Transferred to Attack Squadron 122 (VA-122) at NAS Lemoore, CA.
    • Deployed aboard the USS Kittyhawk.
  • Transferred to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 33 (VAQ-33), NAS Quonset Point, RI by 1968.
    • Used as a utility and training aircraft.
    • Coded as GD-800, 1968
    • Coded as GD-700, 1970
  • Transferred into storage at the AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, February 1970.
  • SOC: February 5, 1970.
  • Transferred to NAS China Lake for open storage and use as a target, 1980.
Roy Stafford/Black Shadow Aviation, Jacksonville, FL, 1989.
  • Registered as NX188RH.
  • Transported by truck to Chino, CA, May 1989.
  • To be restored.
Robert J. Pond/Planes of Fame East, Minneapolis-Flying Cloud Airport, January 1990.
  • Registered as N188BP, February 1990.
  • Restoration begun.
  • Colors changed from grey Navy scheme to dark blue USMC scheme as Marines 21/BP.
  • First flight, July 8, 1991.
Robert Waltrip, Galveston, TX, April 1993.
  • Based it at the Lone Star Flight Museum.
Wally Fisk/Amjet Aircraft Corp., Saint Paul, MN, February 1994.
  • Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia, WA (possibly on loan?), July 4, 1998.
Olympic Jet Inc, Olympia, WA, March 13, 2001.
Brent Hisey/Hinsey Aviation, Oklahoma City, December 2006.
  • Registered as N188RH.
  • Based at the Wiley Post Airport.
  • Flown in grey Navy scheme.
Frank W. Dworak, Stow, MA, April 23, 2012.
  • Based with the Collings Foundation.
Skyraider A1E LLC, Rocky Hill, CT, August 16, 2012.
Quonset Air Museum at North Kingston, RI, ????.
Collings Foundation, Stow, MA, January 16, 2018.
Douglas A-1 Skyraider
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
 Photo Source(s):
Glenn Chatfield
Mike Henniger
Research Assistance:
Glenn Chatfield
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