“We have been working with the Intruder Association and their representative in Washington, Greg Smith, a resident of Oak Harbor. “This particular Intruder was the next to last to ever serve and fly in the U. “The duties of the A-6 were absorbed by the F-18 Hornet, and the F-18 is designed to do more than one thing. “The Grumman A-6 Intruder was retired from the Navy in 1996, and the F-18 assumed the attack role. “It last served with the Navy attack squadron VA-196, which is the squadron written about in the novel and later movie, Flight of the Intruder.”įurther describing its service and retirement, Pruzzo explained, “It was delivered to the Navy in 1975 and flew off the USS Midway, which is now in an aircraft carrier museum in San Diego. “This particular airplane also flew in Operation Southern Watch, when we were enforcing the Iraqi No Fly Zones in the early 1990s. They also bombed targets in and around Benghazi and Libya, and they were also used in Operation Desert Storm. Joe Pruzzo, the air museum’s Executive Director, informed the Times, “When in service, typically, these airplanes would be sent into high threat areas such as when we attacked Muammar Gaddafi in 1986. Sometime around the first week of March, a Grumman A-6 Intruder, which is the last of the specifically designed attack bombers designed for the Navy, will arrive. S., is expecting an interesting addition. Delivery to the Museum includes a super size load (53 feet long and 25 feet in width) that will travel by road from Arizona to California.Ĭastle Air Museum, located at 5050 Santa Fe Drive in Atwater, one of the largest aerospace museum displaying vintage aircraft in the Western U.
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