Skyhawks Illustrated #10709: “The first Scooter”
Literally "hand built," XA4D-1's first prototype rolled off the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at El Segundo, CA, powered by a Curtiss-Wright J65-W-16A engine and fitted...
Our newest editorial project proposes a global data base documenting the rich visual histories of 2,960 A-4 Skyhawks flying worldwide since June 22, 1954.
After 35 years tracking its whereabouts, we located and inspected A-517, the world’s only privately owned IA-58A Pucará and the sixth of six such aircraft which survived the 1982 war in British hands…