For anyone out there that was a former "A" school student at Nattc Millington TN, you most likely remember seeing the Vigilanti on a stick that was in front of the chow hall
Well today I happen to notice that it's not on the stick anymore:
For anyone out there that was a former "A" school student at Nattc Millington TN, you most likely remember seeing the Vigilanti on a stick that was in front of the chow hall
Well today I happen to notice that it's not on the stick anymore:
Last but not least the poles (stick) that it was perched on The cones mark where the A-5 was located:
I don't know its fate but IMHO I think it will be refurbished and sent to the Millington airport side for display there. Same thing was done with the F-11 SuperTIger.
Ack! Don't remember any viggie on stick at Rat Center Mucus. I was there June '68 through Feb.'69. AFUN 'P' School, Avionics School, and AT 'A' School.
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I was assigned there as a "C" school instructor in fall of '81 and I think this A5 was planted on a stick at NAS Millington after your tour there.
Based on info I have gleaned, it was active up till 1979 then Trf'd to Nas Memphis. I was at NAS Cubi Pt PI when you were attending Avionics school.
RA-5C Vigilante, BuNo 156608, from Reconnaissance Attack Squadron 7 (RVAH-7) during what may have been its final flight in 1979. This aircraft is now on permanent display at Naval Support Activity Mid-South (formerly Naval Air Station Memphis), Tennessee.
Note: Heavy 7 (RVAH-7) was stationed at NAAS Sanford Fl and was disestablished on 28 September 1979.
So anyone that attended an "A" "B" or "C" school at Millington or assigned there after 1979 most likely had seen it.
Went down Navy Rd this morning and didn't notice.
It was there in the early 1990s when I was a student, for sure my first A-5 sighting!
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I'm guessing it will get an exterior refurb and then displayed somewhere. If it was destined to be turned into beer cans, I doubt that it would have been placed on a trailer intact. I certainly hope it will not end up in a scrap yard!
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I think it will end up at the Millington Airport (NAS Millington); just like they did with the F-11 Tiger
https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...-at-Millington
I was there when they put that plane up onto that stick. I was there from Sep 1980 to Feb 1982, but didn't record the actual date. I just remember that plane being towed in, then later mounted on the stick(s).
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