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Argentine A-4 Skyhawks Gallery

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FAA (Air Force) A-4B to A-4P
142799: C-201
142127: C-202
142421: C-203
142136: C-204
142694: C-205
142762: C-206
142688: C-207
142139: C-208
142684: C-209
142128: C-210
142701: C-211
142773: C-212
142129: C-213
142109: C-214
142102: C-215
142098: C-216
142747: C-217
142099: C-218
142416: C-219
142796: C-220
142108: C-221
142752: C-222
142110: C-223
?? C-224
142803: C-225
142090: C-226
142104: C-227
142728: C-228
142734: C-229
142736: C-230
142748: C-231
142749: C-232
142757: C-233
142760: C-234
142765: C-235
142784: C-236
142788: C-237
142830: C-238
142838: C-239
142855: C-240
142859: C-241
142862: C-242
142866: C-243
142883: C-244
142893: C-245
142901: C-246
142902: C-247
142910: C-248
142911: C-249
142914: C-250

Possibles:
142095
142132
144897
144973

FAA A-4C to A-4P
147714: C-301
148438: C-302
149526: C-303
149618: C-304
148562: C-305
148435: C-306
148452: C-307
148612: C-308
147747: C-309
148450: C-310
148517: C-311
147765: C-312
150595: C-313
149564: C-314
148531: C-315
147806: C-316
147830: C-317
148556: C-318
148553: C-319
149642: C-320
147741: C-321
149514: C-322
148467: C-323
148559: C-324
149585: C-325

FAA TA-4AR (former OA-4M)
154328: C-901
153531: C-902
154651: C-903
154294: C-904

FAA A-4AR (former A-4M)
158178: C-907
158419: C-909
158429: C-910
158229? C-911
159471: C-912
159493: C-913
159778: C-914
159472: C-915
159780: C-915?
160029: C-916
158167: C-917
158423: C-918
158171: C-919
158426: C-920
149575: C-921
160045: C-922
159470: C-923
160025: C-924
158413: C-925
160032: C-926
160035: C-927
160039: C-928
160040: C-929
160042: C-930
160043: C-931
159478: C-932
159483: C-933
159486: C-934
159487: C-935
159783: C-936
158523: C-
159476: C-
159473: C-

154828: Parts only
159470: ?
158414: Parts only
158417: Parts only
160029: Parts/Display
154173: A-4F, Parts/Display

CANA: A-4B to Navy A-4Q:
144872: 301
144882: 302
144895: 303
144915: 304
144929: 305
144963: 306
144983: 307
144988: 308
144989: 309
145001: 310
145004: 311
145010: 312
145025: 313
145050: 314
145053: 315
145061: 316

144932 Parts only
145017 parts only
144972: serial 0654 ?

KC-135 experience

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Between June 1964 and August 1973 the KC-135 tankers flew 194,687 refuelling sorties, provided 813,878 aerial refuellings and transferred a total of 1.4 billion gallons of fuel. To the thirsty fighters bound for downtown Hanoi the tankers were a lifeline that they came to depend on day after day. Many a tanker was credited with a ‘save’ when it rendezvoused with a fighter about to flame out due to lack of fuel.

Phil Gilbert was a tanker pilot in 1967 and, in common with many other pilots, was transferred to a different type of aircraft for a second tour of duty in Vietnam. In 1968 he became a Forward Air Controller and swapped his big bird for a little one, a Cessna O-2. His experiences give an insight into the life of the big-bird pilots, high above the clouds, and the little-bird pilots, dodging bullets down above the trees.

There were many times when we offloaded considerably more fuel than was scheduled. This was not at all unusual when fighters coming off the target were disoriented from their scheduled tanker and had to grab the first tanker they came to. Frequently we seemed to be picking up fighters coming in from all directions, all desperate for fuel. We would end up offloading so much fuel that our fuel status would already be critical when we would arrive back at our home base at U-Tapao, Thailand, only to find that we’d have to hold due to a thunderstorm hanging right over the field or, if recovering at Takhli, that we might have to hold for a priority recovery of battle-damaged fighters.

We had one fighter, an F-105 I think, who flamed out as he approached us for fuel. As his plane tilted into a glide, his remaining fuel sloshed forward and he got an air start and zoomed up to make the hook-up.