Aircraft was ex New Zealand, serial NZ6251.
First flight from Douglas factory at Long Beach on 05 December 1969.
Arrived at Auckland aboard the helicopter carrier USS Okinawa on 17 May 1970 and towed by road to Whenuapai.
Test flown at Whenuapai on 23 May 1970 before being ferried to No.75 Squadron, Ohakea.
To No.2 Squadron, Ohakea in 1985.
Canopy inadvertently jettisoned in flight on 05 February 1997.
Repaired and returned to service on 14 July of that year.
Flown from Ohakea to storage at Woodbourne on 19 October 2001.
On arrival it had completed 6558.0 airframe hours.
Sold to Draken International in 2012 and registered in the USA as N140EM on 01 March 2013.
labels the A-4K as a Mach 1.2 aircraft on the website. Really?
For the E/F models the max permissible indicated is 1.1 at 34,000, dropping lower both above and below that altitude, but the graph also gives a max dive speed of 1.22 at 30,000, it too dropping away above and below that altitude. K don't know specifically.