Aircraft: A-4L Skyhawk
Custodian:
BuNo: 147754
modex: JE-05 |
Location: Marana
NW Regn. Airport
Date: 2004 |
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Description: head-on view of former VC-2
Blue Tails A-4L Skyhawk BuNo 147754 resting in the Arizona sunshine.
7754 has been purchased by Southwest Florida Defense Antiquities
Museum Inc.
Apparently this bird was once for sale on EBAY:
"EBAY:
Bu Number 147754 Air frame hours 4130TT. Engine J65-W-20, with 8400 # thrust (7800 # empty weight), serial number W610077. FAA registered as N145AT. Dry storage since it's retirement in Jan. 1976. Maintained by AMARC until sale to Malaysia in 1984. No corrosion and the electrical wiring is excellent. The only bicentennial Skyhawk remaining in the world and the actual aircraft used for the Hasegawa model representation of an A-4L. 95% complete with only the flaps, spoilers and a few other small parts removed by Grumman of St. Augustine. We are a 501c3 not for profit aircraft museum. This aircraft's air frame or engine has not been cut or demilled in any way. It is civilian owned and is one of the very few which you can fly under an experimental/exhibition certificate. The pilot is only required to hold a type rating. The minimum hours required for the rating is 1000 hours pilot in command of anything that flys. Yes, hours in a Cessna 150 count! Landing speed is around 120 knots and it can fly in and out of a 5000' paved strip. The dust (red baby powder) in the cockpit photo is not sand. It is the very fine particulates associated with the special soil around Tucson which prohibits corrossion. It will vacumn off or wipe off with ease."
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Photo credit: photo by Greg Shepard via Joe
Turpen
contact: J. Turpen |
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