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Royal Australian Navy
Fleet Air Arm Scrapbook
History of A4G Skyhawk,
various FAA jets and other fixed wing
aircraft plus helicopters —1948–2010.
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Other past & present users of various

Skyhawk aircraft models are included
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Adobe Reader 9.3.2 / Windows XP SP2 or above & Windows Media Player 10 (11)
are required to view the pages at their best. Sadly, MAC users are likely to be disap-
pointed by not being able to see the videos or popup graphics embedded in these pages My RAN radio callsign ‘Lucifer’ was used for formation & armament sorties
05 Nov
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Royal Australian Navy A-4G Skyhawk Pictorial Histories PDFs The Story of TA-4G 879. The last page of the PDF references the
original 724 line book page. Click on the icon in the lower right hand
TA- corner of this page to see the original photo of the page (much
3670
4G weathered). The image that will pop up is in Flash format. If you do not
KB
879 have a Flash player installed then the OS will ask to download this
from the web. Many thanks to Australian Museum of Flight and Dave
Masterson for this photo. AMOF now FAAM Fleet Air Arm Museum

Title Size Details

TA- RAN TA4G 880 which became NZ6255 and still going strong has had
C 4G
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an historic "last" flight for the RAN Fleet Air Arm role. Story in the
The PDF shows in graphical format the history of RAN A4G 870. This KB
880 PDF with video clips and graphics
A-4G 2541 Skyhawk survived a mid-air collision in 1975 but was lost due to engine L
870 KB failure on 23/01/1979. Fortunately SBLT C. Tomlinson survived his RAN TA-4G side number 881 had a long life until just before the
ejection into rugged bushland I cessation of use by the RNZAF it crashed on 20/03/2001 with the
Another pictorial history of the use of RAN A4G 871 (second-hand pilot ejecting successfully over water west of Perth WA. This PDF has
A-4G 5059 C
USN A4) now converted to NZ6215 Kahu standard. Perhaps it will fly TA- 5851 a glimpse of the rugged country around Nowra as well as some generic
871 KB
again in the USA 4G 881 KB information about the 'leading edge slat' problem for an A-4 pilot
Sadly ASLT Malcolm McCoy died in RAN A4G 872 when he collided
K from a USN safety magazine. The very last page of this PDF
A-4G 3309 with another Skyhawk whilst practising 'divisional bombing' (in loose - expresses hope for the remaining A-4Ks to have a flying future
872 KB formation) on 17/07/1975. The PDF shows a pictorial history of this somewhere soon
aircraft - 872 B Former RAN Skyhawk A-4G 882 had a long service life until a fatal
A story in graphics is told of the history of RAN A4G 873 which
A-4G 3914 crashed after engine failure 05/06/1973. The pilot SBLT Tony Der
L crash in 16/02/2001 at NAS Nowra while with the RNZAF as NZ6211.
Previously this Skyhawk had been damaged in mid-air collision with
873 KB Kinderen from VF 805 Squadron ejected over water safely. 873 was
the first Skyhawk loss in the RAN
U A-4G 1438 NZ6210 during Kiwi Red practice doing the roll under break manoeuvre
882 KB on 24/10/89, returned to service 17/11/90. Served with 2 Sqn RNZAF
A-4G
RAN A4G 874 had a varied life, first with the USN with service in
5358 Vietnam and then a second life with the RAN Fleet Air Arm; and finally
E 2001. Crashed while conducting practice of barrel roll with NZ6213
- hooked up at Nowra NSW. NZ6213 escaped. Tragically Sqn Leader
874 KB another life with upgrades with the RNZAF and the Kahu update.
Murray Neilson RNZAF was killed.
Maybe it will fly again in the USA
T The story of RAN A-4G 883 in pictures. Thanks again to usual
A-4G RAN A4G 875 was lost after engine failure immediately after being
1231 suppliers of photos, John Bartels, Laurie Hillier, Don Simms and Calum
875 KB
catapulted from HMAS Melbourne 02/10/1980. LCDR Clive
Blennerhassett ejected with minor injuries AMOF now FAAM
E Gibson and others (RAN and RNZAF official). If any further pictures
A-4G 4224
People to thank for photos: Australian Museum of Flight; Dave X or/and information can be supplied then that would be most welcome.
883 KB
Masterson; Calum Gibson; Don Simms; Laurie Hillier and more - the list
A-4G 4084
is long. Usually the story concentrates on the individual aircraft but T
often there will not be a lot of material for each one. Then aspects of
876 KB -
the overall Skyhawk RAN to RNZAF (including previous USN) history A-4G 5180 Another long pictorial story about former RAN A4G 884 becoming
are included. Any errors or omissions can be easily corrected - please L 884 KB NZ6213 - perhaps to fly again one day in the US of A
advise

A-4G 5168
Former RAN A4G 877 after becoming NZ6218 suffered a major I The PDF shows the colourful history of RAN A-4G 885 before it went
accident during landing on a wet runway. The aircraft was repaired to A-4G 5835 to "Davy Jones' Locker" on 21/10/1980. Thankfully SBLT David
877 KB N
fly again. Story of the aircraft in this PDF 885 KB Baddams ejected at the end of the soft catapault shot, being rescued
On 28/04/1980 RAN TA4G 878 suffered an engine failure during the by helicopter minutes later with minor injuries
TA-
4G
3301 'break downwind' into the circuit for landing at NAS Nowra. Leut Andy K A-4G 5893 RAN A4G 886 rolled off the flight deck on 24/09/1979. The last
KB Sinclair ejected successfully, passing 500 feet, about 1NM south of
878
runway 26. S 886 KB pages of this PDF demonstrate the rolling flight deck hazards
 A Pictorial history of A4G Skyhawk. This pictorial history of 887 in the
RAN, with a swansong in the RNZAF compiled, unfortunately without
A-4G photos of 887 in RNZAF garb; therefore the last 2 pages are of
3787
anonymous RNZAF A4s. The bird strike photos are of the actual
887 KB
former RAN 887 (NZ 6214) however. Thanks to Laurie Hillier,
John Bartels and others for their excellent colour photos

RAN A-4G 888 was usually referred to as "triple 8" until 23/05/1979
A-4G 4500 when it was lost over the side of HMAS Melbourne after the arrestor
888 KB wire broke during an arrest. LCDR K. Finan USN ejected successfully
as the Skyhawk went nose down off the deck
RAN A4G 889 was lost off the catapult due to catapult malfunction on
A-4G 08/11/1973. SBLT Barry Evans did a great job surviving being run over
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almost by the ship, surfacing after it passed by, to be then rescued
889 KB
quickly by the plane guard Wessex. A video embedded in page 390 shows
the story of this event in brief

THE A-4 ALLEY

Aussie A-4G Histories and Documents
The Royal Australian Navy operated A-4G and TA-4G Skyhawks from around
1968 to 1984. After this the remaining aircraft were sold to the Royal New
Zealand Air Force, eventually to be come RNZAF A-4Ks. In the ultimate irony
they returned to their original home at HMAS Albatross in 1991 for a 10 year
stint supporting the RAN. This page contains a large number of PDFs on various
subjects related directly and indirectly to the operation of the A-4G Skyhawk
by the RAN.
E-mail address replaced by new
Many of these PDF
- pages contain video files and flash animations.
For help on these PDFs you can try this e-mail address:
one, please click old one to get it!
lucyfer@msn.com.au
Navy Callsign Photo by LCDR J.R. Brown RAN (Ret.) LEUT Peter James LSO
All PDFs were created by Phil Thompson (Lucifer). Hope you enjoy them!
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This is the first massed helicopter Flypast I had seen - at Nowra in October 1986,
at the RAN 75th Anniversary Airshow. (The lastest Helicopter Flypast I saw was at
the Fleet Air Arm 60th Anniversary Airshow at Nowra in October 2008. A 22 year
time-warp!) This 27 aircraft 1986 Formation, seen approaching the NAS Nowra
Control Tower, was led by a Westland Wessex. The Formation comprised 10
Wessex, 5 Squirrels, 3 UH-1C Iroquois, 2 Bell 206B-1s, 6 Sea Kings and one HS748
EW fixed wing aircraft. Twenty-six rotors in close formation. A sight to behold!
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Title Scrapbook History of the A4G Skyhawk, other Skyhawks and other RAN FAA aircraft
This very large PDF is primarily about the A4G Skyhawk in Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
service from 1968-84 with supporting pages about other Skyhawks in service, particularly the A4K
(KAHU) because surviving A4Gs were on-sold to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1984. To
provide a context for the service of A4Gs other jet aircraft in use at that time in the RAN FAA are
included, Sea Venoms, Vampires and Macchis. Other aircraft also for context are the Trackers and
Wessex and Iroquois, then briefly the currently serving helicopters. Extra pages about HMAS
Melbourne and Sydney are included as well as previous era aircraft such as the Sea Fury and
Firefly. There are many details of this equipment in the PDF pages, with embedded .WMV video
clips from many sources. Popup graphics .SWF Flash graphics will give additional details on a page
sometimes. The PDF is best viewed in Windows XP SP2 and above. MAC users are going go have
a disappointing view via various versions of Adobe Reader that will not show the graphics with
transparencies correctly; nor will the embedded video clips of popups be enabled (as I'm led to
believe - I don't have a MAC to begin to problem solve). There is nothing that can be done about
that except download and view the PDF on a Windows machine. [And curse Steve Jobs for not
making MACs more Windows compatible.] All viewers should use the very latest Adobe Reader.
Description For Windows this is currently Adobe Reader 8.1.2 available freely online, a 22Mb download.
Windows Media Player 10 or above is required for the video clips embedded; plus Adobe Flash
Player for the popup graphics, these will be already in a Windows setup if it is being used to surf
the web. For other earlier Windows users I cannot say what the viewers experience will be. Please
e-mail me about any problems/errors when viewing the PDF so that corrections can be made. My
e-mail is on the front page of the PDF (lower right corner).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Any RAR program (such as WinRAR) is NOT needed to reconstitute
the two files (.EXE & .RAR) under discussion here. This 2 part RAR executable archive
has been made to cater for the 2GB file size limit of this web page. The first .EXE file in
the archive need to be downloaded with the second part of the archive - the .RAR file -
so that when the two parts of the overall PDF RAR archive (when it is reconstituted )
are in the same folder/subdirectory AND when the .exe file is double clicked, the RAR
process will commence. On my fast computer the reconstituting took ONLY 3 minutes.
Anyone with a computer older than one year will see a time difference - so be
prepared. When the PDF is reconstituted in the same folder it will be 3.41GB with the
file name "RAN_FAA_A4G_stories_15may08_3161pp_3-41Gb.pdf
Author Phil Thompson Please change [at] to an @ sign
Date 30 May 2008
NEW!
Part One [1.78GB .EXE file] | Part Two
[1.78GB .RAR file]
Many thanks to generous Tim Dwyer for making
these PDF downloads permanently available online
http://www.history.tjdwyer.com/
Title RAN Fleet Air Arm Macchi MB326H
This 84Mb 127 page PDF about the RAN FAA Macchi MB326H 'only' is a subsection of the overall
Description A4G/FAA PDF. There is not a lot of information available about this aircraft in service in the RAN.
The A4G Skyhawk attracted most attention. The Macchi was in service with the RAAF in large
numbers so there is a lot of information about this same aircraft elsewhere on the internet.
Author Phil Thompson Please change [at] to an @ sign
Date 25 April 2008
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Title RAN VF-805 LSO Log Book for HMAS Melbourne Cruise 15 Jan 1980 — 10 April 1980
This VF-805 LSO logbook PDF has context from the squadron linebook pages for that cruise and
Description other information (with LSO symbol explanation). LSO = Landing Signal Officer. The LSO records
each Deck Approach whether the aircraft arrests, bolters, wavesoff or does a touch and go
landing. The pilot is debriefed afterwards by the LSO according to the symbols recorded in the
logbook (to avoid memory lapses and disputes).
Author Phil Thompson Please change [at] to an @ sign
Date 8 April 2008
[pdf article, 23.5MB]
Title Scrapbook History of the A4G Skyhawk & other Skyhawks
This very large PDF is primarily about the A4G Skyhawk in Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
service from 1968-84 with supporting pages about other Skyhawks in service, particularly the A4K
(KAHU) because surviving A4Gs were on-sold to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1984.
Skyhawks formerly in service with the USN for example have extra pages because the A4G was
flown according to NATOPS standards of the USN.
Whilst Skyhawks in service today with theBrazilian Navy have plenty of video clips because they
are relevant to how the A4G was used by the RAN FAA.
To provide a context for the service of A4Gs extra pages about HMAS Melbourne. There are many
details of the equipment in the PDF pages, with embedded .WMV video clips from many sources.
Popup graphics .SWF Flash graphics will give additional details on a page sometimes.
Description
The PDF is best viewed in Windows XP SP2 and above. MAC users are going go have a
disappointing view via various versions of Adobe Reader that will not show the graphics with
transparencies correctly; nor will the embedded video clips of popups be enabled (as I'm led to
believe - I don't have a MAC to begin to problem solve). There is nothing that can be done about
that except download and view the PDF on a Windows machine. [And curse Steve Jobs for not
making MACs more Windows compatible.]
All viewers should use the very latest Adobe Reader. For Windows this is currently Adobe Reader
8.1.2 available freely online, a 22Mb download. Windows Media Player 10 or above is required for
the video clips embedded; plus Adobe Flash Player for the popup graphics, these will be already in
a Windows setup if it is being used to surf the web. For other earlier Windows users I cannot say
what the viewers experience will be.
Please e-mail me about any problems/errors when viewing the PDF so that corrections can be
made. My e-mail is on the front page of the PDF (lower right corner).
Author Phil Thompson Please change [at] to an @ sign
Date 8 April 2008 [pdf article, 1.9GB]
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