The best of these was the A-1 Skyraider, a star in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the last U.S. military propeller-driven aircraft of its type to see combat. The A-1 was retired from active ...

Its name is a nod to the A-1 Skyraider, a propeller-driven attack ... which give them “the capability for short takeoffs and landings as well as the ability to operate from unimproved or austere ...

The aircraft is named after the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a piston-engined attack aircraft that served during the Korean and Vietnan Wars. “Skyraider II represents not just a new platform ...