Aircraft: A-4B Skyhawk
Custodian: VSF-1
BuNo: 145002
modex: NA-82

Location: Fallon Det.
Date:March 1966

Description: left side view of War Eagles Skyhawk BuNo 145002, NA-82, with Tiger nose and Fallon Det. Officers & Bluejackets.

Photo credit: Jon Selah
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Personnel at NOTS China Lake grafted the F11F Tiger nose onto this Skyhawk in an attempt to devise a low-cost air-to-air radar for Skyhawk "fighters" deploying aboard the CVS carriers.

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