Some of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider examples I have photographed. The AD-5N sits outside the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Ore. I also caught up with the Historic Flight Museums A-1 Skyraider “The Proud American” during an airshow at McChord AFB in 2010 and again at a vintage aviation show at Paine Field in 2012. An EA-1F Skyraider has photographed at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson, and a EA-1E model at March AFB.
AD-5 (A-1E) 52-132649
This aircraft was originally a US Navy aircraft. Transferred to USAF, it was flown by then-Major Bernard Francis Fisher (Colonel, USAF Retired) on 10 March 1966 when he rescued a fellow A-1E pilot shot down over South Vietnam in the midst of enemy troops, a deed for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The aircraft was severely damaged in combat in South Vietnam and was returned in 1967 for preservation by the then-US Air Force Museum. It is the only surviving US Air Force Medal of Honor Aircraft.
NMoUSAF 2018
AD-4N (A-1D) 127007
Patriots Point 2013
AD-5N (A-1G) 132534
Evergreen Aviation Museum 2015
Evergreen Museum 2018
AD-4N #7797
Planes of Fame, Chino 2018
AD-5W (EA-1E) 132789
March AFB 2018
AD-4W Skyraider 7850
Erickson Collection, Madras 2017
Erickson Collection; Madras 2023
AD-4NA (A-1D) Skyraider 126956
This is the controversial Skyraider seized by the ATF from warbird enthusiast Claude Hendrickson.
USS Alabama Memorial 2024
AD-5Q (EA-1F) 135018
Some confusion as the Skyraider at the Pensacola Museum (below) also displays as 135018 in very similar (but not identical) markings.
Pima Air Museum 2017
AD-5Q (EA-1F) 132532
Displays as 135018 in very similar (but not identical) markings to the Skyraider 135018 at Pima (above).