VMA-242, VMA(AW)-242, & VMFA(AW)-242

Please allow time for images to load, Updated 7 March 2017

This is a very small sample of VMA(AW)-242 bat-patch/noseart material found across the WWW.
Great thanks go to Dale Summers, VMA(AW)-242 (1969-70 for access to his VMA(AW)-242 Website.
Additional thanks go to Mike Duermyer, VMA(AW)-242 (1968-69) for his corrections to this web-page

VMA(AW)-242	VMA(AW)-242	VMA(AW)-242	VMA(AW)-242
VMA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242
VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242
VMFA(AW)-242	VMFA(AW)-242	.	.

Bat nose/tail art on Grumman A-6 Intruders
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1968+ Bat in front of lightning bolt, bolt crosses the entire rudder, rudder is white.
1969+ Bat on shield in front of lightning bolt, bolt crosses the rudder, rudder is white.
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1969 Bat in front of lightning bolt, with lightning bolt limited to within the boundaries of the shield. Different rudder colors?
1975+ Anatomically correct caricature of an attacking bat on a white rudder. Tail code skewered by lightning bolt.
1975+ Anatomically correct caricature of an attacking bat on a black rudder. Lightning bolt crosses entire rudder, behind the bat.
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Circa 1984? Anatomically incorrect bat (i.e., wings are on backwards). Tail code skewered by lightning bolt in most of these images.
Three of these Intruders have the bat silhouette + lightning bolt motif just behind the cockpit.
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Bat nose/tail art on McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets
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Photos by J. Melampy

Heartfelt thanks to "My friends at VMFA(AW)-242"

BUNO-165410 over Fallujah, October 2004

Heartfelt thanks to "My friends at VMFA(AW)-242

NAS North Island, San Diego

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