Aircraft: A-4C Skyhawk
Custodian:
VA-172
BuNo: 147673
modex: AJ-304
Location: air-to-air
Date: 10 July 1970
Description: Blue Bolt Skyhawk BuNo 147673, AJ 506, takes off from NAS Atsugi, Japan as CVW 8 aircraft rested while waiting for USS Shangri-La, CVA 38, to depart port call in Yokohama. Notice the patch on the fuselage that proclaims "Laotion Highway Patrol."
Photo credit: Photo by and courtesy of Masaaki Hayakawa.
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