page_title: List of surviving Douglas A-1 Skyraiders
section_title: United States
hierarchical_section_title: List of surviving Douglas A-1 Skyraiders / Survivors / United States
caption_attribution_description: English: A Douglas AD-5 Skyraider on display at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport near Tyler, Texas (United States).
context_page_description: Airworthy
  AD-4N
  124143 - Jean Baptiste Salis. Damaged during a mid-air collision with P-51 Mustang "Big Beautiful Doll" at IWM Duxford's Flying Legends Airshow in July 2011. The P-51 was destroyed, and Skyraider 124143 suffered extensive damage to its right wing, but landed safely.
  125716 - Didier Chable.
  AD-4NA
  127002 - Michele Gineste and Maurice Etchetto in Le Havre, France.
  On display
  AD-4NA
  126979 - Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.
context_section_description: Airworthy
  AD-1
  9257 - based at the Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, Illinois.
  AD-4
  123827 - based at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  126997 - privately owned in Houston, Texas.
  AD-4N (A-1D)
  124156 - privately owned in Troy, Alabama.
  126959 - privately owned in Bennett, Iowa.
  AD-4NA (A-1D)
  126882 - based at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, Texas.  The aircraft survived Hurricane Ike without damage as it was flown out before the storm.
  126965 - based at the Heritage Flight Museum in Burlington, Washington. It has a Wright R-3350-26WA with 2,700 hp. While with the US Navy, it served aboard the USS Kearsarge with VA-115 in 1953, off the coast of Korea. The cease-fire was called before it saw combat action, however, the aircraft of VA-115 conducted DMZ patrols for the duration of the cruise. When it returned stateside it was stationed with FASRON 8 at NAS Alameda before transitioning to FAETULANT at NAS Norfolk, VA from November 1954 until August 1955.
  AD-4W
  126867 - based at the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon.
  AD-5 (A-1E)
  132683 - based at the Greatest Generation Naval Museum in San Diego, California.
  AD-5W (EA-1E)
  135152 - based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas.
  135178 - privately owned in Saint Charles, Missouri.
  135188 - based at the Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts. It was donated to the Collings Foundation in May 2012.
  AD-6 (A-1H)
  139606 -  based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas.
  139665 - based at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation in Sevierville, Tennessee.
  On display
  XAD-1
  9102 - USS Intrepid Museum in New York, New York.
  AD-3
  122811 - Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  AD-4N (A-1D)
  127007 - USS Yorktown (CV-10) at the Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. It bears the markings of Attack Squadron 65 (VA-65), assigned to Carrier Air Group TWO (CVG-2), aboard Yorktown, circa 1953-54.
  AD-4NA (A-1D)
  125739 - United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, NCC China Lake (North) in Ridgecrest, California.
  126924 - Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.
  127888 - Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  AD-4W
  127922 - USS Midway (CV-41) at the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum, in San Diego, California. According to the curators, the aircraft is actually an AD-4W that was modified to resemble an A-1 for museum display purposes.  Former Fleet Air Arm Skyraider AEW.1, WT981, later Svensk Flygtjänst target tug, as SE-EBL. Decommissioned in 1976 and acquired by Flygvapenmuseum. Sold to David Talichet in 1983, as N5469Y, later donated to the National Warplane Museum. On display in San Diego since 2006.
  AD-4B
  132261 - Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
  AD-5 (A-1E)
  132463 - Aerospace Museum of California at the former McClellan Air Force Base in North Highlands, California.
  52-132649 (former bureau number 132649) - National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. 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.
  52-247 - Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB in Roy, Utah.  It is an A-1E that was apparently remanufactured from various components taken from several other A-1s (both Air Force and Navy versions) in South Vietnam.
  AD-5N (A-1G)
  132534 - Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
  52-598 (former bureau number 132598) - Hurlburt Field Memorial Air Park, Hurlburt Field, Florida (USA).
  AD-5W (EA-1E)
  132443 - Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side) in Tyler, Texas.
  132789 - March Field Air Museum, March AFB (former) in Riverside, Califo
caption: Douglas AD-5 Skyraider on display at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum
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