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Description: A Grumman A-6E Intruder on display at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station Museum. This aircraft, Bureau Number 156997, was original an A-6A that first flew in December 1969. It was converted to an A-6E and flew in the VX-5 operational test squadron. It was transferred to the Naval Air Test Center's Strike Air Test Directorate at Patuxent River in October 1984, and was retired on July 29, 1993. It came to the museum in April 1995. It was 4,789 flight hours, 780 catapult launches, 787 arrested landing, and 6,287 total landings.
Title: A-6E Intruder Pax River Museum
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