The tail section ended up in a pit.
Zoomed in a little. It was broken off just ahead of the horizontal stab.
View to the east.
Me down in the pit. I first learned about this site by seeing a photo of this tail section in a book.
This fairing is for one of the three antennas that were mounted on the fuselage.
When I looked under the fairing, I saw that someone wrote the aircrafts serial nubmer on it. This number is now I figured out the plane's number. The only A-4M S/N ending with 038 was 160038. Doing a search on the number lead me to the photos.
This shot with the insert of #160038 shows the Tomcat's legs, part of it's tail, the bottom part of the L and the three and eight.
On the other side of the fin, I could make out an eight and zero. Also a part of the Tomcat.
Closer view of the cat shows it's feet and part of a leg.
The stab was in fairly good shape. This is the right side with it's leading edge torn off.
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