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Monochrome archival image of RA-3B Skywarrior Full Navy Bureau serial number 142666 on lower tail. Tail code SS of VAP-61 with Modex nose code 917. Airframe protectively sealed with access panels, side windows, cockpit canopy, engine intakes and exhausts covered over. All camera ports on lower fuselage sides and underside were also covered. Legibility of markings appears to indicate original photo was taken not long after aircraft was placed in open air desert storage By contrast of sky a colored filter may have been used over lens. This web page records RA-3B 142666 still in AMARC storage by 2001: home.clara.net/mwindridge/Database/20May01/area_181.htm RA-3B Bu No 142666 first arrived into storage 6 Oct 1969. Its full MSDC/AMAC/AMARG storage code was AN2A0040. Its original location was 181106. This was Area 18, Row 11, position 06. This website reveals the fate of RA-3B 142666: www.a3skywarrior.com/PDFs/A-3_Storage_List_2008.pdf Scrapped in 2002.

This web page has a picture of RA-3B 142666: www.gonavy.jp/bbs1/index.cgi?page:150=v (Use slider to scroll down nearly all the way to view) RA-3B 142666/SS-917, VAP-61, 19 March 1969. NAS Atsugi, Japan. VAP-61 was based at NAS Agana, Guam at this time.

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Low sun angle shot over darkened ocean. A3D-2/A-3B Skywarrior Bu No 138925 VAH-10 ‘Vikings’. Modex 205 on nose and upper starboard wing. Large squadron sword emblem on fuselage side Air wing code NK on tail and upper starboard wing. Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) Later modifications; Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (DECM) ‘dove’ tail, flattened nose, different cockpit framing. But still with forward under fuselage periscope fairing. VAH-10 using Modex codes in the 200 range was with CVG-14 code NK on just two occasions: This was when embarked on CVA-64 USS CONSTELLATION, firstly during Nov. 1962 for local operations in the East Pacific, secondly for a West Pacific voyage between Feb.21 & Sept 10, 1963. www.gonavy.jp/CVG-CVG14f.html (information courtesy of 'GO!NAVY' website by Takafumi Hiroe of Japan) So A-3B 138925 may, during those dates, have been one of the aircraft of VAH-10. Some info on Skywarrior 138925; Accepted by US Navy March 1957 Converted to KA-3B by NARF Alameda in April 1969. 'Crash landed' at Elemendorf AFB after mid-air collision with ERA-3B. Nov 1987. SARDIP at Elemendorf. There is reference that Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior 138925 was with VAQ-208, tail code AF. Modex 651. At NAS Alameda. 11 Oct 1975. Startling picture of KA-3B 138925 in badly damaged condition after the tragic incident. www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/Douglas-KA-3B-Skywarri... KA-3B Skywarrior 138925 (cn 76/10786) Tail code GD. VAQ-33. Modex 140. Missing the port engine and sustaining damage to the gear door and tail after a mid-air with ERA-3B 144827 over Cook Inlet. Elmendorf AFB Alaska, April 1988. Dedicated webpage to Skywarrior losses/incidents including KA-3B 138925: www.a3skywarrior.com/memorial/full_accident_date.htm VAQ-33..138925.. 11/16/1987 (16 Nov 1987)…Location not stated; over water.. Midair collision with ERA-3B BuNo 144827 during formation flight. 138925 recovered after losing one engine. [The three named crewmembers landed safely] (use slider to scroll all way to bottom of page) Thanks to the 'A-3 Skywarrior Association' Flickr pic of the aircraft KA-3B 138925 collided with: www.flickr.com/photos/8416077@N08/4362352752/ ERA-3B 144827 Tail code GD of VAQ-33 - with unit emblem between letters. 1981 picture of KA-3B 138925 refueling an F/A-18A - note color scheme with probably hi-viz red on outer wings and tail, Modex 700 on nose, insignia on tail and lettering on upper rear fuselage (the insignia and lettering indicate an aircraft used by the Naval Air Test Center. Patuxent River, Maryland ) : 1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Visschedijk/7285.htm JOHAN VISSCHEDIJK COLLECTION No. 7285. Douglas KA-3B Skywarrior (138925 c/n 10786) US Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A (160782 c/n 8/A007) US Marine Corps Photograph from McDonnell Douglas, taken February 1981 Nov 1988 picture including KA-3B 138925 Modex 140 of VAQ-33 tail code GD Apparently repaired if as dated Nov 1988: www.vaq34.com/vaq34/a-3_alaska.jpg Photo from Sheldon Brown One of the last gatherings of KA-3B's On DET, Elemendorf AFB. Anchorage, Alaska Nov 1988 Front to back: VAQ-33 138925, VAQ-34 138944 VAK-308 142664, VAK-308 147666