Douglas F3D Skyknight - Aircraft On Display

Aircraft On Display

• F3D-2 Skyknight, bureau number 124598, is on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in NAS Pensacola, Florida.

• F3D-2Q Skyknight, bureau number 124618, is on display at the USMC Museum, in Quantico, Virginia.

• F3D-2Q Skyknight, bureau number 124620, is under restoration for display at the Quonset Air Museum in Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

• F3D-2 Skyknight, bureau number 124629, is on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.

• F3D-2Q Skyknight, bureau number 124630, is on display at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum in Miramar, California.

• F3D-2 Skyknight, bureau number 125807, is on display at the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas.

• F3D-2Q (later EF-10B) Skyknight, bureau number 125850, is under restoration for display at the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB, California. When operational, this aircraft served until 1970 as part of VMCJ-3 (Marine Composite Reconnaissance Squadron 3) based at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, carrying tail code "TN."

• F3D-2 Skyknight, bureau number 125870, (marked as BuNo 127039), is mounted on a display pylon at the Vietnam War memorial in Del Valle Park in Lakewood, California. It is painted in the 1960s-era grey and white color scheme of Marine aircraft. The aircraft bears the tail code "7L," which was the 1960s-era tail code designated for Marine Air Reserve Training Detachment and Naval Air Reserve aircraft based at Naval Air Station Los Alamitos.

• F3D-2T Skyknight, bureau number 127074, was on display at the USS Intrepid Museum in New York City, New York until April 2012. It will be moved to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum near Schenectady, NY. (Operated by Raytheon in Massachusetts as an electronics test plane until it was donated to the Intrepid in 1987. It is painted in the colors of Marine night fighter squadron VMFN-513 as flown during the Korean War.)