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English: A privately owned Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider (U.S. Navy BuNo 126965). While in service with the U.S. Navy, it served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) with Attack Squadron 115 (VA-115) in 1953 off the coast of Korea. The cease-fire was called before it saw combat action. When it returned to the U.S. it was stationed with FASRON 8 at Alameda before transitioning to FAETULANT in Norfolk, Virginia (USA), from November 1954 until August 1955. She ultimately entered storage at Litchfield Park in August 1957. It was later sold to France in 1960 as "No. 54". It was based at was based at Chateaudun but served in Algeria in 1962, Djibouti in 1968, Madagascar in 1971, and Chad (as "TR-KMP") in 1976. After its military service it was first regiertered in France (as "F-ZVMM"), then in Belgium. Since December 2003 it is registered as "N965AD". It is painted as an A-1H (BuNo 139738, "The Proud American") of the 1st Special Operations Squadron, U.S. Air Force, during the Vietnam War, 1970-1972. It first served with the 602nd SOS and was finally shot down over Laos on 28 September 1972. The pilot ejected and was rescued. |
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