Douglas AD-6 Skyraider BuNo 129444 was the first ...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7822

... to be painted in Gull Gray over White after the USN switched from Gloss Sea Blue. El Segundo production line, July 27, 1955.

maxum96 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:54 pm

There's a Skyraider in the picture? :lol:

phil65 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:28 pm

Can't be, too clean...

Phil

Ken · **Posted:** Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:00 am

A. I love it.

B. I would like to download a copy of this photo.

C. Were there any other images from this session available?

D. Can you confirm the bureau number, as 129444 was not an AD-6?

Ken

airnutz · **Posted:** Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:29 am

Shortly after the photo session the AD was filled with oil and it was never that clean again... :lol:

Adam Kline · **Posted:** Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:46 am

Great find.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7822

Ken wrote:

A. I love it.

B. I would like to download a copy of this photo.

C. Were there any other images from this session available?

D. Can you confirm the bureau number, as 129444 was not an AD-6?

Ken

E. Glad you like it.

F. It's all yours.

G. I'll check.

H. I'll check as well.

mike furline · **Joined:** Wed May 05, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 2635

http://www.skyraider.org/skyassn/skyserials.htm

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7822

Keep digging! Someone will eventually figure it out.

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:50 pm

Thank you for the post, Mark! I love anything to do with Skyraiders. My grandmother worked for Nevada Air Products, located in Reno, in the early 50's, manufacturing tail components (rudders and horizontals) for Douglas Skyraider production. I have always wondered at the potential for any of her work to possibly still remain today in any of the surviving Skyraiders.

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

I spent some time today trying to figure out the BuNo confusion with no success whatsoever.

I did learn, however, how many websites just straight-up copy and paste information from each other. The answer is: An appalling number.

jdvoss · **Posted:** Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:48 am

Although this 1955 revised paint scheme was quite a significant change for naval aircraft I did make an interesting observation a mere four years later. It was 1959 and I had taken my first job (ever) at the Douglas LONG BEACH plant on the C-133 Cargomaster. In a remote corner of that building there was an AD-6 being worked on in a quasi-secure area. The aircraft had a fresh WRAP-AROUND olive green paint scheme with all stenciled nomenclature in black. The US insignia was small and in std R,W, & B colors. What the ultimate mission of this A/C was remains a mystery to me as this was about six years ahead of any advertised US involvement in SE Asia.

Anyone have any input ???

JDV
http://www.fuselagecodes.com

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

jdvoss wrote:

Although this 1955 revised paint scheme was quite a significant change for naval aircraft I did make an interesting observation a mere four years later. It was 1959 and I had taken my first job (ever) at the Douglas LONG BEACH plant on the C-133 Cargomaster. In a remote corner of that building there was an AD-6 being worked on in a quasi-secure area. The aircraft had a fresh WRAP-AROUND olive green paint scheme with all stenciled nomenclature in black. The US insignia was small and in std R,W, & B colors. What the ultimate mission of this A/C was remains a mystery to me as this was about six years ahead of any advertised US involvement in SE Asia.

Anyone have any input ???

JDV
http://www.fuselagecodes.com

VERY interesting! Overall OD sounds like a US Army scheme. This wouldn't have been too long before the Army was floating proposals for its own organic fixed-wing CAS aircraft and ultimately testing the F-5, G.91, and A4D for the job.

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