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Scooters Forever (A-4 Skyhawk Tribute Thread)
- Thread starter ea6bflyr
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I love it when I park a T-45 at a civilian airport and people who don’t know any better come up and say "Wow, I didn’t know the Navy was still flying the T-4". I took a T-45 to an air show and of the hundreds of people that came up to look at the Jet, half of them thought it was a T-4 and the other half had no idea what it was.
ea6bflyr said:
Oh ya...oops
VRCs dont even fly jets.... what the hell was I thinkin
I even have that issue of Naval Aviation News around here too.
early morning brain fart
ps- i think it was the SNA VT's that retired the scooter in 94. Not sure but 94 seems to stick out for some reason.
/lost all credibility in this post
According to this article, the last TA-4's were retired by Tracom in 1999.
http://www.tailhook.org/Brffa99.htm
A-4's, mainly from the Israeli Air Force, are being used by private contractors to provide aggressor training for the military (they are often painted in IAF colors, which is a brown/green/tan camouflage). They have mainly been used to simulate attacking aircraft on Carrier Battle groups during excercises but there is talk to use them as aggressors in ACM (a mistake I think). Two Navy squadrons served the agressor function for enemy strike forces (not fighters) for the Navy until their retirement in the 90's, VAQ-33 and VAQ-34. These companies also use Saab Drakens, Israeli Kfirs, F-4's, T-33's and Lear Jets.
http://www.tailhook.org/Brffa99.htm
A-4's, mainly from the Israeli Air Force, are being used by private contractors to provide aggressor training for the military (they are often painted in IAF colors, which is a brown/green/tan camouflage). They have mainly been used to simulate attacking aircraft on Carrier Battle groups during excercises but there is talk to use them as aggressors in ACM (a mistake I think). Two Navy squadrons served the agressor function for enemy strike forces (not fighters) for the Navy until their retirement in the 90's, VAQ-33 and VAQ-34. These companies also use Saab Drakens, Israeli Kfirs, F-4's, T-33's and Lear Jets.
E5B said:
There's a couple civilian orgs flying Scooters according to skyhawk.org. ATSI is out of AZ and has a bunch of A-4s.
www.atsifightertraining.com
There's also some group operating out of Cecil Field.
http://www.aerogroupinc.com/
Man, I'm jealous. F-4 has been my favorite aircraft as long as I can remember. And the A-4 is just great too.
American_Ace
AFROTC
E5B said:
That explains why about 30 of those suckers are sitting right outside the FBO at AVQ (my home airport). Pretty cool. I like that airport. Some dude always cruises around in a microjet out there, too. It's awesome, it's about the size of a sidecar on motorcycle except it's jet-powered. There's quite a few war birds out there as well, the Red Barons spent last winter there, and there's an aerobatic box just to the sw of the field, so quite a few people have Extras and whatnot at AVQ. Unfortunately, that's also where that Osprey went down a few years ago.
Grant
Registered User
Every now and then there are a few A-4 variants for sale on www.aircraft.com . Also theres always a few F-86's, F-100's, F-5/T-38's, etc. A bunch of foreign aircraft too.