Platinum Fighter Sales, a proud sponsor of Vintage Aviation News, has announced the exclusive listing of a rare and historically significant warbird: a 1952 Douglas AD ... as the A-1 Skyraider.

The incident remains one of the most celebrated examples of piston-engine aircraft triumphing ... specific variant of the Skyraider family, introduced as part of the AD-6 series (redesignated ...

The moniker is a nod to the Douglas Aircraft Company A-1 Skyraider single-seat attack ... Its beating heart is a single Pratt & Whitney engine that spins a five-bladed Hartzell propeller and ...

In the late 1940s, I got a job at the Douglas Aircraft plant in El Segundo, California, where AD-1 Skyraider dive bombers ... systems without firing up the engine, you called for a hydraulic ...