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    Airframe Family: Douglas D-558 Skyrocket
    Latest Model:D-558-1
    Last Military Serial:140 NACA
    Construction Number:6564
    Last Civil Registration:N2863D
    Compressed ID:Douglas D-558-1 sn 140 NACA cn 6564...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a D-558-1.

    1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 37970.

    14 April 1947

    First flight.
    At Muroc Dry Lake, CA.

    20 August 1947

    CDR Turner F. Caldwell established a world speed record of 640.744 mph over a 30-kilometer course.

    From 1947 to 1949

    Made 101 test flights by the Navy, Air Force, and Douglas.

    21 April 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics with s/n 140.

    1949


    Photographer: NASA Dryden Flight Research Cent

    5 August 1957

    To State of California, Sacramento, CA with new c/r N2863D (D558-1, 37970).

    31 December 1963

    Civil registration, N2863D, cancelled.

    1964

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    November 1977


    Photographer: Larry Johnson

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    11 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    8 October 2011


    Photographer: Matt Maranto
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    National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Matt Maranto
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