Manufacturer Serial Number
10709
Date
Custodian
BAR FR
Record
1
Model
XA4D-1
Notes
and no sugar scoop exhaust baffle. Most production features of later Skyhawks were installed and tested on 137812 during its lifetime, thus photographs of the aircraft displaying differing features are not unusual.
Location
Literally hand built and the first of 2,960 Skyhawks to roll off the Douglas Aircraft Company assembly line. With a Curtiss-Wright J65-W-16A engine it had a one-piece windscreen, no tailhook or refueling probe
BUNO
137812