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Bureau #: 139665 Construction #: 10897 Civil Registration: N39149 N665TC |
Model(s): AD-6 Skyraider A-1H Skyraider Name: None Status: Airworthy Last info: 2012 |
History:
Manufactured by Douglas aircraft as an AD-6, El Segundo, CA.
Delivered to US Navy as Bu. 139665.
- BOC: 1956
- Redesignated as an A-1H, 1962.
Transferred to SVNAF as 139665, August 25, 1967.
- Flown to U Taphao AB, Thailand and abandoned by SVNAF pilot.
- Ferried from U Taphao AB to Takhli AB and stored.
Yesterdays Air Force, Long Beach, CA, January 1980-1988.
- Recovered from Thailand.
- Stored unconverted.
Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino, CA, April 1983-1991.
- Stored unconverted, 1988-199.
- Registered as N39149.
Bob Grant/Great American Aircraft, Torrence, CA, 19??-2002.
- Undergoing restoration.
R. Neal Melton, Luttrell, TN, February 2005-2012.
- Registered as N665TC.
- Restored to airworthy.
- First flight in 2009.
- Operated by the Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville, TN.
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Federal Aviation Administration, 2012. |
Photo Source(s): Uwe Glaser via Neal Melton/Tennessee Museum of Aviation Research Assistance: None |
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