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 Post subject: A-4 In a yard......
PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 7:44 pm 
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On one of the gun forums I'm on, a member posted this picture, it's being reposted here with his permission. Oh and he's in Arizona......

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https://russian-mosin-nagant-forum.com/ ... 15&t=32582

What he wrote on the forum, regarding the picture.

"I decided to take a bike ride around the neighborhood and took a photo of stuff that our neighbors keep in their yards. 

Yes, that is an A-4 Skyhawk. It is legally owned by a private individual and no, it has not been demilitarized. The owner was planning to restore it to airworthy condition but never got around to it. It’s been sitting there at least ten years. I saw one other A-4 on another neighbor’s property and there were two more that were said to be in storage that had been bought by others. 

A couple other neighbors have interesting stuff. One neighbor built a guesthouse using Boeing fuselages bought from the local airliner scrapyard in Marana. I’ll take a photo of that tomorrow."

I keep getting a "The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 1024 pixels wide and 1024 pixels high. The submitted image is 2048 pixels wide and 1536 pixels high." I keep trying to resize it with no luck. So here's an imgur link to the photo, maybe someone else can re-size it. Finally got it to load a picture after cropping it a dozen times.

https://imgur.com/CZ7leHC


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 Post subject: Re: A-4 In a yard......
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Looks like BuNo. 145076.

145076
http://joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries18.html
145076 converted to A-4L. Seen at Memphis NATTC Oct 21, 1975. To MASDC as 3A0477 Mar 18, 1976. (N129AT) seen at DMI Aviation yard 8/28/2000. (Not sure on the N129AT connection?)

http://warbirdregistry.org/jetregistry/a4-145076.html
https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquir ... rtxt=129AT

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Try this. BuNo could be 145026:
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Thats in Tucson at the La Cholla airpark, always wanted to go over there and check it out but just have never made the time. Its located on the north end of the strip near the run up pad.


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Chris Brame wrote:
Try this. BuNo could be 145026:
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http://forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegr ... 45061.html
Douglas A4D-2 (A-4B) Skyhawk/Bu. 145026
*1959-62: VA-106 as AK-305.
*1962-63: VA-43.
*1963: NARTU Jacksonville, FL.
*5/2/1963: Written off. Or on 5/2/1964?

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Chris Brame wrote:
Try this. BuNo could be 145026:
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Thank you, it kept giving me a message that the picture was too big. I was doing it from my phone, and had to drop it several times to get the size down.

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I understand the owner lives on "Skyhawk Lane"!


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Nice - although if it were me it would sit there as a reminder of what I had never gotten to. . . Sweet bird! They seem to be going for about $4M ish on the market these days.

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 Post subject: Re: A-4 In a yard......
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umm your a few million to much. these projects were going for around 70k . You could get a flyer for under a mil


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Nice - although if it were me it would sit there as a reminder of what I had never gotten to. . . Sweet bird! They seem to be going for about $4M ish on the market these days.

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nzjet wrote:
umm your a few million to much. these projects were going for around 70k . You could get a flyer for under a mil


wendovertom wrote:
Nice - although if it were me it would sit there as a reminder of what I had never gotten to. . . Sweet bird! They seem to be going for about $4M ish on the market these days.

Tom P.


I was thinking more about a currently available flyer. And you are right, I'm waay to high, the only quickly available A-4 for sale is ONLY 1.4M - so really, almost affordable!

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