Developed for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s, the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk went on to play a key role in the Vietnam War as the U.S. Navy's first-line ...

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 ...

The Douglas ... Skyhawk gets lost in the mix sometimes—but between 1954 and 1979, nearly 3,000 A-4s were produced, making the jet a ubiquitous Cold War staple with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine ...

This Douglas A4D-2N (A-4C) Skyhawk is one of these comeback cases ... As for this one, it comes from ex-US Navy/Marine Corps surplus stock that left service sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s.