O-2 Skymaster - an American lightweight twin-engined airplane, created in the mid-1960s by the Cessna company and based on a civil version of the Type 337. It differed from conventional layouts in having fore-and-aft engines in the fuselage and a twin boom construction. Upon the outbreak of the Vietnam War, it was widely used as a communications and special missions aircraft, including a role marking targets for other heavier attack planes, and also as a rescue plane, with the purpose of evacuating pilots of damaged aircraft from enemy territory. In 1980, six O-2s were transferred to the US Navy as range controllers for strike aircraft training. The airplanes were originally based in California, and later they were transferred to the NAS Fallon in Nevada. All six machines were used up to the end of the 1980s, after which they were decommissioned. Altogether, 532 aircraft of this type were manufactured.
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0-2A Skymaster 'white 593', s/n 67-21363, US Navy, VFA-123 Rough Raiders, Nevada, 1985