Original Aircraft Skin / Aviationtag / Canadian Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Aviationtag has already given many remarkable aircraft a second mission – including military aircraft. But a true fighter jet had never been part of our story. Until now.
With the McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Aviationtag enters a completely new category: our first fighter jet edition.
The A-4 Skyhawk is one of the most legendary lightweight fighter and attack jets in aviation history. Compact, fast, agile, and built with performance in mind, the Skyhawk became an icon of military jet aviation – and continues to fascinate jet fans to this day.
This edition was created in official cooperation with Top Aces, one of the world’s leading providers of tactical air training and advanced adversary air services. Operating highly specialized jets and flown by some of the most experienced military aviators in the industry, Top Aces trains modern air forces under highly realistic conditions. In many ways, this is as close as civilian aviation enthusiasts can get to the real-world counterpart of what movies like Top Gun made famous.
The McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk C-FGZO, built in 1976, manufacturer’s number 532, remains active in flight operations today. For that reason, this Aviationtag edition was not cut from the aircraft’s fuselage as usual, but created from original external fuel tanks – the so-called drop tanks – of this Skyhawk. Genuine material from a still-flying fighter jet, transformed into a limited Aviationtag.