Aircraft: A-4C
Custodian: VA-66, VA-76, VA-34, and VMA-225
BuNo:
Modex: AF, AC, CE
Location: USS Enterprise CVN-65
Date: OCT 1962
Photo credit: Dave Leiber
Contact: David Weber
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Description: Skyhawks parked forward on CVN-65 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Skyhawk units of CVW-6 (VA-66 and VA-76), along with VMA-225, not normally a part of CVW-6, were deployed aboard to provide additional fire-power. Also, VA-34 Skyhawks were assigned to Enterprise in OCT and in NOV they were replaced by VA-64.
CVW-6 Tail Code was "AF" until late in 1962, when it changed to "AE".
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