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Built by Douglas at El Segundo, California c1950-51. To l'Armée de l'Air as No. 14 in 1960. Transferred to F.A. Gabonaise as TR-KFP, serving from 1972. US registration N91909 allocated in 1976 but sold instead in France as F-WZDP in 1984. Re registered as F-AZDP and based with Jean Baptiste Salis at La Ferte-Alais, France, 1984. Damaged in a mid-air collision with CA-18 Mustang/A68-192/Big Beautiful Doll at Duxford in 2011, no casualties.
Arizona Department of Public Safety "Ranger" coming in for a landing, Saturday March 18th - part of a Search and Rescue mission for an injured hiker in the Superstition Mountains - east of Phoenix. The DPS pilots are amazing.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
Type: Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider (G-RADR) & Douglas AD-4N Skyraider (F-AZDP)
Operator: Private
Identity: G-RADR / H-503 & F-AZDP / RM-205
Date: 10 July 2011
Location: Duxford, UK
Event: Flying Legends
Notes: G-RADR in USN markings with former identity 126922. F-AZDP in USN markings with former identity 124143.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
Sadly this beautiful aircraft crashed and was destroyed after a mid air collision. Thankfully the pilot parachuted to safety. The other aircraft was a Douglas Skyraider (F-AZDP) which landed safely minus a chunk of wing!
Type: Douglas AD-4N Skyraider
Operator: Private
Identity: F-AZDP / RM-205
Date: 10 July 2011
Location: Duxford, UK
Event: Flying Legends airshow
Notes: Landing with outboard section of starboard wing missing after mid-air collision with a P-51D Mustang during a run-and-break. The P-51D crashed, with the pilot successfully bailing out and landing safely under a parachute. In United States Navy markings with former identity 124143.
French based as F-AZDP Douglas Skyraider AD4N in US Navy colours. She has spent some twelve years or so with the French Air Force as number 14 from 1960. To Gabon Air Force as TR-KFP until the early 1980's. To La Ferte-Alais (near Paris) with Amicale Jean Baptiste.
Historically a very important aircraft, the Skyraider had the distinction of being the only propeller aircraft to shoot down a jet in the Vietnam war.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
Type: Douglas AD-4N Skyraider
Operator: Private
Identity: F-AZDP / RM-205
Date: 10 July 2011
Location: Duxford, UK
Event: Flying Legends airshow
Notes: Landing with outboard section of starboard wing missing after mid-air collision with a P-51D Mustang during a run-and-break. The P-51D crashed, with the pilot successfully baling out and landing safely under a parachute. In United States Navy markings with former identity 124143.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
Bell Kingcobra NL62822 leads Mustangs G-SUSY and G-HAEC.
G-SUSY (44-72773) on the left was built in 1944 and went to the Nicaraguan Air Force around 1957 as FAN GN.120. It later became N12066, then went to Charles Church in 1987 as G-SUSY, named after his wife. Charles died in 1989 and the aircraft was bought by Paul Morgan at Sywell in 1990.
On the right is Ray Hanna's Mustang G-HAEC (44-72218). It was sold to Germany in 2011 as D-FBBD, but crashed at Duxford on 10 July 2011 after an in-flight collision with Skyraider 124143 (F-AZDP). The Skyraider landed safely after losing about 4ft from its starboard wing, and the pilot of the Mustang bailed out at low level, sustaining minor injuries.
Bell Kingcobra NL62822 was to crash at La Ferte Alais on 4 June 1990 killing its pilot John Luscombe.
Photo by Dick Gilbert, West Malling Warbirds airshow, 28 August 1989.
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.
11th June 2006., Orleans-Bricy Air Force Base, France
F-AZDP / 124143/RM-205 (cn 7449). This Skyraider wears the markings of US Navy attack squadron VA-176 "Thunderbolts" embarked aboard the USS Saratoga (CVA-60) during the Vietnam War. In 2011 at Flying Legends it damaged it's starboard wing after a mid-air collision with Mustang D-FBBD 'Big Beautiful Doll'.
Arizona Department of Public Safety "Ranger" coming in for a landing, Saturday March 18th - part of a Search and Rescue mission for an injured hiker in the Superstition Mountains - east of Phoenix. The DPS pilots are amazing
At the Seething Air Charity Day 2011.
AD-4N Skyraider c/n 7722 was built in 1948 at the Douglas El Segundo plant, California with Bureau Number (BuNo) 126922 and delivered to the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air) with serial 42 in 1960.
On February 1976 she was delivered to the Armée de l'Air Gabonaise (Gabon Air Force) with serial TR-KMM. She was one of eight Skyraiders that were donated to Gabon, where they were flown by French mercenaries serving with the Groupment Aerient Presidentiel.
After being struck of charge in 1985 she was bought by Aero Retro in France who had previously bought her sister F-AZDP as well. She arrived in Le Havre, France on April 17,1985 and was registered as F-AZED in the French civil register. In 1986 she went to La Ferté Alais to become part of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis collection. Registered as F-AZED she was painted as BuNo 126922, code JS-937 of VF-152 "Fighting Aces" flying from the USS Intrepid.
On December 24, 1991 she was sold to the Duxford based Fighter Collection in the United Kingdom and registered as G-RAID in June 1993. She stayed with the TFC for ten years until October 30, 2003 when she was sold to Kennet Aviation at North Weald and registered G-RADR.