Aircraft For Sale's "Today's Top Pick" is a 1952 Douglas AD-4N Skyraider, a legendary warbird renowned for its long range, targeting accuracy, exceptional load-carrying ability, and combat durability ...

In late 1958, during heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait, Skyraider pilots were prepped for nuclear strike missions. They spent tense hours at night, seated in their aircraft and ready for ...

Platinum Fighter Sales, a proud sponsor of Vintage Aviation News, has announced the exclusive listing of a rare and historically significant warbird: a 1952 Douglas AD-4NA Skyraider, affectionately ...

-- An AD-4N Douglas Skyraider aircraft now sits peacefully at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, following a somewhat controversial journey to Mobile. The attack aircraft served the U.S. Navy ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the ...

The A-10 Warthog takes all the glory when it comes to modern close-air support enthusiast circles. That's in spite of more than a couple of flaws that its superfans seem to deny at all costs. But ...

“piloting Spads through a supersonic world, tasting the thunderstorms at 8,000 feet when an SR-71 [supersonic spy plane] was hitting three times the speed of sound above 70,000 feet. It was a ...

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. The Douglas Skyraider was a single-seat, carrier-based, long-range dive/torpedo bomber that saw action in ...

A U.S. Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider of attack squadron VA-152 Friendlies in flight in 1966. VA-152 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 16 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany for a deployment ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While it played a crucial role in Vietnam, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed during World War II for the U.S. Navy. Described as a “flying anachronism,” the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The A-1 served well and with distinction. Described as a “flying anachronism,” the single-seat Douglas A-1 Skyraider–affectionately known as the Spads, after the French ...

America's Special Operations Forces (SOF), regardless of their nature, are a special breed of military, used to performing missions that would seem simply impossible for most other soldiers. As such, ...