Skyraiders ...

[Mark Allen M]

Skyraider-ADofMarineAttackSquadronOneHundredTwenty-OneVMA-121ontheground


Skyraider-AD-6sofAttackSquadronOneHundredSeventy-SixVA-176ontheground


Skyraider-AD-A1fromCarrierAirEarlyWarningSquadronThirteenVAW-13onthegroundwithwingsfolded-1


Skyraider-ADfromAttackSquadronFiftyTwoVA-52offUSSTiconderogaCVA-14ontheground


Skyraider-ADofAttackSquadronOneHundredTwenty-TwoVA-122landing


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Skyraider-ADofAttackSquadronOneHundredTwenty-TwoVA-122inflight




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Skyraider-ADoftheVietNamAirForceVNAFonthegroundwithwingsfolded-1

[Mark Allen M]

Hope I'm not repeat photo posting any here.


Skyraider-ADofAttackSquadronOneHundredTwenty-FiveVA-125ontheground


Skyraider-AD-4NAofFighterSquadronOneHundredNinety-FourVF-194inflightwithcheckhookdownPilotENSJackDunckel


Skyraider-A-1HofAttackSquadronOneHundredSeventy-SixVA-176inflight


Skyraider-AD-4NAofFighterSquadronOneHundredNinety-FourVA-194gettingreadyforadeckrunPilotLTJGPierreLaVallee


SPAD-A-1H56thSOWSEAAnitaMichelle


Skyraider-ADoftheVietNameseAirForceVNAFontheground


A-1HSkyraider-1

[Mark Allen M]

A-1HSkyraider139758


AD-4NSkyraiders


AD-4NSkyraider


AD-4NSkyraider


AD-4NSkyraider


AD-4Skyraider


Skyraider-AD-4NAofFighterSquadronOneHundredNinety-FourVF-194flyingofftheNorthKoreancoastwithsurvivalcannisterandbombload


Skyraider-AD-4NAofFighterSquadronOneHundredNinetyFourVF-194flyingwithCherokeestrikeloadOne2000poundbombtwo1000poundbombsPilotLTJGSamCatterli


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AD-4Skyraider-test

[The Inspector]

SPADS in SPADES!!!! Nice to see shots of the 'Chad Spads', one of them, buno 126965 (originally an AD-4NA), is now operated as 'The Proud American' as an A-1 with Bill Anders Hertitage Flight Museum in Mt. Vernon, WA.
THNX-

[EDowning]

Then:




Now:

[Mark Allen M]

More "then's" ...


A-1HSkyraiderAD-6


A-1HSkyraiderAD-6137616


Skyraider-AD-1QblueofCompositeSquadronThirty-FiveVC-35ontheground


Skyraider-AD-1QofCarrierAirGroupOneHundredandTwoCVG-102atK-18inKorea


Skyraider-AD-3ofAttackSquadronOneHundredNinety-FiveVA195fromCV-21USSBoxerinflightinthewesternPacific


Skyraider-AD-3ofAttackSquadronOneHundredNinety-FiveVA195fromCV-21USSBoxerinflightinthewesternPacific


Skyraider-AD-4ofAttackSquadronOneHundredNinety-FiveVA-195fromCV-37USSPrincetoninflightnearKorea


Skyraider-AD-4ofAttackSquadronOneHundredNinety-FiveVA-195fromCV-37USSPrincetoninflightnearKorea


Skyraider-ADsofAttackSquadronTwenty-fiveVA-25inflightPilotLTWoodyWoodbury


Skyraider-ADsofAttackSquadronTwenty-fiveVA-25inflightPilotLTWoodyWoodbury

[Adam Kline]

Mark this is great stuff. Being a HUGE Spad fan I have seen most of these before, but your scans always impress. Is there any chance that you can redo the Stuka ones from a few years ago. I think your photo bucket account was closed and those pictures are no longer available.

[Ken]

Above there are two shots of an AD-4, modex #518. Can the Bu no be sharpened? Appears to be 123837, which would place it 10 numbers from Fighter Factory's rare AD-4.

Ken

PS: Glad to see you back, Eric.

[Mark Allen M]

Greetings Adam, thx and yes I'll repost the old Stuka stuff (along with some new Stuka stuff) after I finish reporting the rest of this raider stuff.

[Ken]

Every good flying story that ends with "throwing away the book" has to start with the book itself ...

[Mark Allen M]

Nice Ken, thx.


AD Skyraiders pictured in the Overhaul and Repair Facility at Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda, California.


Lieutenant (junior grade) H.B. Morgan of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 33, Detachment 62 pictured in the cockpit of his AD-5Q Skyraider


AD-6 Skyraiders assigned to Training Squadron (VT) 30 pictured during a training flight from Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Texas.


AD-4B Skyraider assigned to Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) China Lake, California, pictured shortly after releasing a Mk 44 torpedo during a weapons test.


AD-1 Skyraider of Attack Squadron (VA) 19A launches from the flight deck of the carrier Princeton (CV 37).


Reconnaissance photograph shot by an AD Skyraider of Fighter Squadron (VF) 194 off the carrier Valley Forge (CV 45) showing a town in North Korea. Skyraider in upper right corner.

[Mark Allen M]

Thunderbolt 251 I hope you're still hanging around. Here's a few more VMA-121 photos.


AD-2 Skyraider Pilot Lt Rex Bozarth of VMF-121, K-6 Airfield at Pyongtaek, 1952


AD-2 Skyraider Pilot Lt Rex Bozarth of VMF-121, K-6 Airfield at Pyongtaek, 1952


AD-2 Skyraider Pilot Lt Rex Bozarth of VMF-121, K-6 Airfield at Pyongtaek, 1952


VMA-121 Skyraider #16

And more Skyraiders ... always more skyraiders ...


Douglas AD-5, NAS NI


AD-1 Skyraider


Douglas A-4C, 148565, Skyraider

[Thunderbolt 251]

Thunderbolt 251 I hope you're still hanging around. Here's a few more VMA-121 photos.

Yes I am Mark!! Thank you for posting these pictures of a legendary, American made Attack aircraft.

~S~

Ralph

[Adam Kline]

I have stared at that China Lake 325 for hours before. Even made a model of it, but I never noticed the under wing had NAVY written on it. I can't seem to make the images as large as yours Mark. Thanks again.

[Ken]

USAF A-1E/G, unit unknown. Five of the six outboard stations are visible with three LAU-68 (or equivalent) 2.75" rocket pods and two M47 100lb white phosphorus bombs. Left stub has a SUU-11 7.62mm minigun pod, opposite stub likely has an external fuel tank; 300 gal fuel tank on the centerline. The white rocket nose cones were mostly seen before 1970 and gradually replaced by OD variants, or when stock was low, no cone at all.