Douglas Skyraider with wings folded at Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire, England. This Douglas AD-4N Skyraider, BuNo 126922, is an ex-US Marine Corps example that later served with the French Air Force in 1960 and the Gabonaise Air Force in 1976. It is painted as a A-1H (AD-6) of attack squadron VA-176 Thunderbolts, which was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing Ten (CVW-10) during a deployment to Vietnam on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) from 4 April to 21 November 1966. The real aircraft AK-402 was A-1H BuNo 134472. It was later transferred to the South Vietnam Air Force. Flown to Thailand in 1975, it is now on display in the Royal Thai Air Force Museum in US Air Force colours. [1]

Skyraiders first went in to service in 1945.

This aircraft is privately owned and UK registered as G-RAID.

Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in June 2005 and released to the public domain.

Cette œuvre a été placée dans le domaine public par son auteur, Arpingstone. Ceci s’applique dans le monde entier. Dans certains pays, ceci peut ne pas être possible ; dans ce cas : Arpingstone accorde à toute personne le droit d’utiliser cette œuvre dans n’importe quel but, sans aucune condition, sauf celles requises par la loi.