The A-4 cost roughly $800,000 dollars, less than the Navy’s $1 million budget for the unit. Additionally, the Skyhawk weighed approximately half of the 30,000 pounds specified by the Navy.

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk gets lost in the mix sometimes ... Built in the 1950s as a replacement for the Douglas A-1 Skyraider (coincidentally the last propeller-driven attack aircraft in the ...

The Douglas Aircraft Company (now owned by Boeing) answered the Navy’s call by building the A-4 Skyhawk. Ed Heinemann, the lead designer for the A-4 Skyhawk, encapsulated the Skyhawk’s ethos ...

This Douglas A4D-2N (A-4C) Skyhawk is one of these comeback cases ... a sports car engine like what the F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom II were flying with in those days. You had 8,400 lbs ...