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Color slide depicting aircraft landing on the flight deck with blue water in the background
Skyhawk Touchdown
Color slide depicting aircraft landing on the flight deck with blue water in the background
Color slide depicting aircraft landing on the flight deck with blue water in the background

Skyhawk Touchdown

Object NameTransparency, Slide
Historic Owner
Association
DateDecember 1967
PeriodCold War; Vietnam War
Mediumcardboard, film
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of RD2 Fred Lugar. P2017.02.271
Object numberP2017.02.271
DescriptionSlide, Color; Horizontal image looking down from the island as a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk touches down on the flight deck of USS Intrepid. It is possibly from VA-34 and numbered “312”. The plane caught the second arresting wire. The landing signal officer platform is on the port side of the deck. The wake from Intrepid is visible. The open water around the ship is calm and the sky is blue with white clouds.

Slide mount has “Made in U.S.A. U.S. Pat. No. 3,013,354” printed in yellow and “5” and “Dec 67R12” printed in black on one side. “Kodachrome // transparency // processed by Kodak” printed in red on the other side.

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