Skyhawk, a small and lightweight attack aircraft nicknamed the "Tinker Toy," was a surprisingly lethal workhorse for the U.S.

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk gets lost in the mix sometimes—but between 1954 and 1979, nearly 3,000 A-4s were produced, making the jet a ubiquitous Cold War staple with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine ...

The Skyhawk was cheap, reliable and effective, so the Navy and Marines ordered hundreds of them, with production eventually totaling at 2,500 in a wide variety of models.In the early 1960s, every ...

In the early morning hours on July 4th, 1986, 21-year-old Lance Corporal Howard A. Foote Jr. climbed a ladder leading into the cockpit of an A-4M Skyhawk. He started the jet up, taxied to one of ...

The A-4 Skyhawk is slated to land near the fairgrounds’ Heroes Hall. News. Sports. TimesOC. ... He said the jet was the Marine Corps’ go-to platform for decades when infantry needed bombs ...

Its combat days are long over, but the fighter jet that has been displayed in the Santa Ana Civic Center since 2008 is getting ready for one last mission. The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, now mounted on a ...

Corsair II showed up to replace it, many scoffed. But this “short little ugly fella” (or SLUF, as pilots called it) turned ...

A U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Douglas A-4M Skyhawk (BuNo 160249) of Marine Attack Squadron VMA-124 taking off from Naval Air Station Oceana, VirginiaU.S. Navy/Bruce Trombecky.

Top Gun Reloaded featuring F-22 Raptor and A-4 Skyhawk. I'm pretty sure most of you remember the Top Gun movie scenes with the F-14 Tomcats dogfighting with A-4 Skyhawks around mountains. Those ...

The Marine Corps says a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was taking off around 2:00 p.m. Wednesday when the accident happened. The subsonic jet is owned by Draken International, ...

IAF retires Skyhawk trainer fleet By Beth Stevenson 2015-12-15T13:09:16+00:00 The Israeli air force (IAF) has retired its McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fleet after 48 years in service.

A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk experienced an emergency on takeoff. ... (WNCT) — A civilian pilot was forced to eject from his plane after takeoff from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on Wednesday.