Photographer: Don Spering

Photographer Benjamin Knowles Jr. - to N827VW

Photographer unknown

In the MASDC storage area. Operated by NAF Washington for the Chief of Naval Operations. Arrived in storage 09 Apr 1974 with inventory code 2A098. Also in view 147652 / TR-33 EKA-3B of VAQ-130 which arrived in storage on 02 Apr 1974. 142672 was delivered to the USN in Oct 1959 as an A3D-2Q and became an A3D-2Z (VA-3B) in 1959 for the CNO. To NARF Alameda, CA on 27 Sep 1980 and put back into service with VAQ-33 and later VQ-1. She crashed into the Pacific 125 miles NNW of Guam while with VQ-1 on 23 Jan 1985 killing 9 onboard.

Originally allocated USAF serial 53-5243 for administrative purposes. Built as a TV-2 for the US Navy BuNo 137936 and redesignated to a T-33B in 1962. Arrived at MASDC from storage at NAF Litchfield Park, AZ on 13 Jul 1965 and departed back to service on 15 Nov 1967. Back to MASDC with inventory code 3T310 on 26 Jun 1975 and in this photo it looks like it is being prepared to depart. Later noted at the Pueblo Weisbrod Museum, CO. To the Quonset Air Museum in May 2007 and last noted there dismantled in Sep 2013.