The A-4 Skyhawk was designed in response to a U.S. Navy call for a jet-powered attack aircraft to replace the older A-1 Skyraider. Douglas opted for a design that would minimize its size, weight, and complexity. The result was an aircraft that weighed only half of the Navy's weight specification. It had a wing so compact that it did not need to be folded for carrier stowage. The A-4F refinement of A-4E featured extra avionics housed in a hump on the fuselage spine (this feature later retrofitted to A-4Es and some A-4Cs) and a more powerful J52-P-8A engine with 9,300 lbf (41 kN) of thrust. In total, 147 were built, and some of them served with the Blue Angels acrobatic team from 1973 to 1986.
Please see the paint guide below for Trumpeter’s suggested colors.
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Product Details:
Scale: 1/32
Parts: 530+
Length: 16.2”
Wingspan: 10.3”
- Painting and assembly required
- Photo-etched parts
- 19 sprues and tires
- Clear parts
- Decals
- Includes instructions
- Accurate engine
- Finely detailed gear cabin and cockpit
- Newly tooled wings
- Optional position flaps
- Plenty of external loads
- Optional plastic or metal undercarriage
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Paint Guides:
1. A-4F, NF.400 No. 152031, VA-94, USS Bon Homme Richard
Metal Black
Insignia White
Interior Green
Clear Red
Insignia Red
Silver
Tire Black
Orange Yellow
Dark Gull Grey
Flat Black
Burnt Iron
Light Gull
Steel
Clear Blue
2. A-4F Skyhawk, 155003 ‘1’, Cdr. Danny Wisely, 1984
Metal Black
Insignia White
Interior Green
Clear Red
Insignia Red
Silver
Tire Black
Orange Yellow
Dark Gull Grey
Flat Black
Burnt Iron
Light Gull
Steel
Clear Blue
Yellow
Blue
Olive Drab
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