’SNOOPY’ SKYWARRIOR

NRA-3B BuNo 144825 ‘Snoopy’ of the Pacific Missile Test Center makes a low flyby at Moffett Field on May 16, 1982. Michael Grove SNOOPY’ WAS THE affectionate nickname given to this US Navy NRA-3B Skywarrior, which was the 206th from a total of 283 of these aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. BuNo 144825 was initially delivered to the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, in 1959 and was subsequently modified with a bulbous radome