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Old December 4th 03, 01:43 AM
Adam Fathauer
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Owl,

What a hoot! (No pun intended.) And no question... You'll always be older
than me. |:-) But I have some old airplanes too...

149484, a KA-6D, January 1990. The airframe was estimated to be 28 years
old back then. It was still older than me. I think it's a reef now. Got
lots of hops in the one on the stick in Grand Junction too. It used to be a
China Lake bird. Got time in several 149 BUNO A-6E's when I was a FRP in
VA-128. I'm sure we've got time in the same jets. Scary, huh.


Spent quite a bit of time keeping that bird in the sky with VA-176
(never flew in one - just spent a good chunk of my life working on
them). Was one of my favorite birds - flew it's first check flight for
the Navy (per the log book) about two months before I was born.