Douglas A-1H Skyraider “Lieutenant America”

This Vietnam Veteran Douglas A-1H Skyraider is one of the many airworthy “Warbirds” located at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation. After spending a few months in the maintenance hanger… Lieutenant America is out on the ramp for a post-annual run up. Listen to this big engine rumble !!! (Filmed on September 8, 2015)

Douglas A-1H Skyraider “Lieutenant America”

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly AD Skyraider) is an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career; it became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed “Spad”, after the French World War I fighter.[2] It was…