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Saw active duty in Vietnam. Final years as Blue Angel 2. Nowadays suspended from a ceiling in the Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola, impersonating BA4.

Taken on strength in 1967, this Skyhawk did two deployments aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in Vietnam (1969 and 70). Later with Fleet Composite Squadron 7 (VC-7), the aircraft joined the Blue Angels in 1984. It now "flies" the slot position in the four plane Blue Angel display at the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, FL. Note, 154217 was a spare aircraft this day and USMC Captain Mark Bircher flew it in his number 2 position without a crew name under the canopy.

14 Sep 1967: TOS USN. By 1969: VA-22, NAS Lemoore, CA. During that year it deployed aboard USS Bon Homme Richard for combat in South Vietnam. After returning home the squadron again deployed on Bon Homme Richard for combat from 2 Apr to 12 Nov 1970. 1975: VC-7, NAS Miramar, CA. By 1984: Blue Angels, with whom it remained until retiring to the Naval Aviation Museum in October 1986.

This aircraft served with the Navy for twenty years begining in 1967 over Vietnam with VF-113 aboard the USS Enterprise and ending by flying with Blue Angels in their final year with A-4s. Now displayed in the Slot position of the diamond formation of A-4s in the atrium of the National Naval Aviation Museum.