Key Point: The A-4 exemplified virtues of simplicity and cost-efficiency that have seemingly been forgotten in modern warplane design. Modern jet fighters continue to grow ever more complicated and ...

Area dignitaries and fairgrounds representatives joined former Marine pilot Kevin Donahue in breaking ground Thursday on the future home of an A-4 Skyhawk jet outside the Heroes Hall veterans museum ...

The A-4 Skyhawk, also lovingly known as the "Scooter," was one cost effective little carrier capable jet that was first known for its ability to haul tons of bombs, and later for its nimbleness in a ...

Coming soon to a fairground near you? Photo by the author It looks like those who enjoy gazing up at the old Marine Corps A-4M Skyhawk attack jet that’s on display in the Orange County Civic Center ...

SANTA ANA – An attack-jet memorial dedicated this morning as a soaring salute to Orange County’s military past began as an oversized idea from a police captain with a flair for thinking big. Santa Ana ...

Its final journey was made on a flatbed truck rather than in the sky, but it’s still fair to say the retired fighter plane coasted to its new place of honor at the Orange County fairgrounds – outside ...

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was the kind of attack airplane that comes along once, maybe twice in a generation. A deadly accurate ground attack jet with the room for many tons of ordinance under its wings ...

ALAMEDA — An A-4 Skyhawk jet fell to the ground and was damaged Tuesday ¿as a restoration crew was using a crane to lower it onto a pedestal near an entrance to the former Alameda Naval Air Station.

Modern jet fighters continue to grow ever more complicated and more fantastically expensive. But some of the most influential aircraft in history succeeded instead because they could do their job ...

A Vietnam War-era jet will have a new home at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa following a deal struck this week by Orange County and the Fair Board. The A-4 Skyhawk is being moved to make way ...

One of the greatest aircraft compromises — in a good way — in history is Cessna’s franchise model, the 172 Skyhawk. The iconic Kansas-based airplane maker has turned out more than 40,000 of the ...