Aircraft: A-4C Custodian: VA-64 BuNo: 147704 Modex: AF-3xx Location: USS Enterprise CVN-65 Date: 18NOV62 to 06DEC62 Photo credit: Dave Leiber Contact: David Weber VA-64 was deployed aboard CVA-62 OCT62 to 18NOV62, then switched places with VA-34 from CVN-65. VA-34 had joined Enterprise during OCT to augment her air wing. So this image was shot between 18NOV62 and 06DEC62. Description: Skyhawks parked forward of the island on CVN-65 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. CVW-6 Tail Code was "AF" until late in 1962, when it changed to "AE". Normally VA-66 and VA-76 Skyhawks provided the light attack jets for CVW-6 aboard CVN-65; the "CE" A4-C Skyhawks are VMA-225 brought aboard for additional fire-power as were VA-64 Skyhawks. Shown are BuNo 147704 from VA-64, 149618 as AF-3xx of VA-64, an AD-6 Skyraider "SPAD" of VA-65, 147769 as CE-12 of VMA-225, 147776 as CE-02 of VMA-225 and 147739 as CE-14 of VMA-225.