douglasad5skyraider

Douglas AD-5 / A-1E Skyraider 132545 PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE across center tail. 545 on engine cowl. Possibly in white and dayglo red/orange. Somewhere along the line this aircraft was modified into an electronic countermeasures aircraft for fleet protection use. 1968 picture of Bu No 132545 distinctly as an EA-1F: www.gonavy.jp/bbs2-a1.html (look for picture with following words below, to view) EA-1F 132545/AK-601 CVS-11 Intrepid (Sep.1, 1968) MACH3 No.3211 EA-1F 132545. VAQ-33 DET 11 Modex 601. CVW-10 code AK ‘GO!NAVY” internet record for EA-1F 132545 during 1968: www.gonavy.jp/CVW-AK1f.html www.gonavy.jp/CVW10-AK1968.html EA-1F 132545 is recorded with VAQ-33 DET 11 as Modex 601 part of CVW-10 code AK during a June 4 1968 to February 8,1969 Vietnam war deployment. (above info courtesy Takafumi Hiroe, citizen of Japan and naval aviation historian) EA-1F 132545 was retired to desert storage at the then MASDC near Tucson Arizona on 18 July 1969. Fate unknown. Dedicated VA(AW)-33 / VAW-33 / VAQ-33 website: www.reenactor.net/vaq-33/vaq-33_history.html On 1 February 1968, VAW-33 was redesignated "Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron Thirty-Three (VAQ-33). " Then, in June 1969, VAQ-33 relinquished all its aircraft and prepared for disestablishment

From 1960 through 1962, I was stationed at Pacific Missile Range, Pt. Mugu, California and assigned as an ECM opperator on this aircraft; 132545. At that time she was painted with the dayglo orange nose and tail configuration with Pacific Missile Range across the tail. A sister craft, 132506, was also assigned to Pt. Mugu but retained the typical gray Navy paint. Our mission was missile launch support for Vandenburg AFB and Pt. Mugu.

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.

Douglas AD-1E