Prowlers retired for museum display

摘要

Two Grumman EA-6B Prowlers have recently been acquired by museums in the US. Prowler 160436 is the latest machine to arrive at the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California. It flew with US Marine Corps (USMC) unit VMAQ-3, nicknamed the Moon Dogs Squadron, and later served with the US Navy's (USN) VX-3, based at China Lake in California. Known as The Vampires, VX-3 is an air test and evaluation unit. The jet was flown from China Lake to Atwater by a USN crew earlier this year and has since been 'demilitarised' (stripped of certain usable parts and engines inhibited).