Interesting Skyraider variant for sale

wendovertom · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:30 pm

Platinum Fighters has a AD-4W for sale : http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!skyraider/c02t4

Pretty cool variant - my question to you folks is this - is it cool enough to restore as a ASW variant or will it probably become the more standard A-1?

Tom P.

AG pilot · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 553

I think the yellow target towing tug scheme would be cool, and original. Come on lottery!

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1594

Gotta be an FAA colour scheme surely? Oh please please please!!!

:drink3:

Malo83 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:31 am **Posts:** 309

AG pilot wrote:

I think the yellow target towing tug scheme would be cool, and original. Come on lottery!

Boy Howdy, that would be nice. Somebody call Columbo somebody ripped off with a blade :lol:

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

Somebody call Columbo somebody ripped off with a blade :lol:

[/quote]
No, it's in the "Public Safe " Air Show mode, where you remove a Blade & the outer wings, so Joe P. don't bang his head... :wink:

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Sitting in the Aero Trader yard. You can see it over the fence easily at the Chino Airshow.

C VEICH · **Joined:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:40 pm **Posts:** 1471

This thing has practically become a landmark! My first PoF airshow was in '87 and the 'raider showed up just a few years after I did. Chino won't be the same without it, almost like the end of an era.

Ken · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:29 am

wendovertom wrote:

is it cool enough to restore as a ASW variant or will it probably become the more standard A-1?

It is cool enough, however, considering the cubic dollars required to get this girl from the yard to the sky, it's more than likely her hump will be removed and she'll look more like the current AD-4NA's that are painted to resemble AD-6's. Also, a full-blown effort would require the fabrication of a guppy radome - that's a lot of buck$ for something not very attractive and super-super-draggy. I wish him the best of luck with the sale and hope we see her on the airshow circuit in whatever configuration the new owners choose.

Ken

marine air · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:19 pm

It's hard to know what one would do with it. I really like multi-seat warbirds a lot. My thought, would be to restore it as the 4W but leave the bulbous appendage off. It would cost a fortune to change out the canopy, and lots of sheet metal. Maybe put a second cockpit in it like the F7F Tigercat , Sea Fury, etc. EA-1Es are too scarce, we need more available with dual controls!

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:19 am

Looks like one of the former Swedish Target tugs.

Warbird Information Exchange

Interesting Skyraider variant for sale

Who is online