Aircraft: A-4E
Custodian: VMA-324
BuNo:
Modex:
Location: MCAS Beaufort SC
Date: May 1966
Photo credit: Steve Waldschmidt
Contact: Steve Waldschmidt
Description: VMA-324 MAINTENANCE HANGER - 1966
Squadron Skyhawks are getting last minute maintenance work at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina before the 1966 USS Independence (CVA-62) cruise. Scooters were having the tail DX identification changed to the Indy Air Group's AG identification; and the normal orange trim was being replaced by the Airgroups blue trim.
BuNos of some of the A-4E Skyhawks making the Indy cruise: 150123, 150082, 151072, 150110, 150095, 152067, 150138 and 150090.