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Intrepid Air & Space Museum adds a Skyraider

Wed May 21, 2014 8:16 am

Anyone know which SPAD this is?
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Historic Douglas A-1 Skyraider Lifted to Intrepid Aircraft Carrier Museum
By Andrew Burton (GETTY) – 23 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 20: A Douglas A-1 Skyraider is moved onto the flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum by crane on May 20, 2014 in New York City. The plane served as a single-seat attack aircraft by the U.S. military from 1946 to 1985. This specific plane is named the XBT2D-1 and was transported in pieces from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia and reassembled on site. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Sorry about the Huge Image- I linked directly from the orginal..
Linked from here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/getty/ ... 7177&hl=en

Re: Intrepid Air & Space Museum adds a Skyraider

Wed May 21, 2014 8:22 am

Seems to be this one:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a1registry/a1-09102.html

Re: Intrepid Air & Space Museum adds a Skyraider

Wed May 21, 2014 5:51 pm

Not indoors, but better than being off-limits on a naval base, and she'll get more TLC this way, so I'd say it's a good move all around. Especially for an airframe as rare as this one.
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