ad5skyraider

Interesting to see this aircraft wearing the "EA-1F" marking above the bureau number (BuNo 133770), considering most sources list BuNo 133770 as being an EA-1E (AD-5W), without any notation of conversion.

This shot is at NAWS China Lake the back ground aircraft are McDonald Douglas F4C Phantom and a North American F-100 Super Saber one of 8 that was bailed to the USN by the USAF for weapons testing

One of our NAF China Lake AD-5N/A-1G Skyraiders taken between August 1962 and August 1965, probably in the earlier part of that range. Armitage Field, NAF China Lake, south side of the NAF Line Shack. The Phantom in the background looks to be one of our (NAF) F-4B's. The F-4 and the F-100 are not parked in a location that they would have operated from. VX-5 hangar 1 is the building in the left background. The BuNo from the original print could narrow the time frame.

In flight picture of a pair of Douglas AD-5Q / EA-1F Skyraider in Light Gull Gray and Insignia White. 134983 Modex 752 134988 Modex 760 Both wearing tail code of RR of VAW-11 ‘Early Eleven’. The EA-1F was one of 53 AD-5Ns converted and redesignated AD-5Q as a four-seat electronic countermeasures aircraft fitted with search radar and ECM pods underneath the wings. The extra two crew members were seated facing aft underneath a bulged aluminum rear canopy with small semi-circular window. APS-31 radar pod installed on the starboard underwing pylon. AN/APS-19: X-band search and intercept radar on port underwing pylon. AN/ALT-2: X/S/L-band radar noise jamming transmitters on outer wing stations. Other antenna protrude from the aft ventral fuselage and extreme tail. An ECM pod could also be attached on the centerline. After 1962 the AD-5Q was redesignated EA-1F. Dedicated internet webpage to the EA-1F: www.aero-web.org/specs/douglas/ea-1f.htm VAW-11 was equipped or partially equipped with the EA-1F until at least 1964. During the second half of the 1960s EA-1F 134983 was sent into desert storage. Picture of EA-1F 134983 while in open storage at the then MASDC near Tucson Arizona: www.john2031.com/photos/douglas/ad-skyraider/134983-ea1f-... Douglas EA-1F Skyraider 134983 Modex 774 of VAW-13 tail code VR. Picture dated May 1969. The ultimate fates of both aircraft are as yet unknown.