These walk-around photos were taken in 2017 at Arlanda Flygsamlingar, when the collection was still located at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. They show a Douglas AD-4W Skyraider, Swedish civil registration SE-EBB, BuNo 127947, c/n 7962 — the airborne early warning variant of the Skyraider, and one of fourteen examples that found a second career in Sweden as target tugs after their British naval service.
The AD-4W was a three-seat early warning derivative fitted with an APS-20 search radar in a distinctive ventral radome. The US Navy built 168 examples, of which 50 were transferred to the Royal Navy as Skyraider AEW Mk.1, providing airborne radar coverage for British carrier groups including during the Suez Crisis in 1956. When the Fairey Gannet replaced them in 1960–62, the surviving British examples were acquired by Svensk Flygtjänst and converted to target tugs by Scottish Aviation at Prestwick.
SE-EBB served with the Royal Navy as WT949 before being the first of the Swedish batch to be converted at Prestwick in 1962. Registered to Svensk Flygtjänst in March 1963, it flew as a target tug for over twelve years before being retired on 29 August 1974 with 5,174 flying hours and donated directly to the collection at Arlanda. It is displayed with its wings folded — a reminder of its carrier origins.