Museum of Flight adding a Prowler

A Grumman EA-6B Prowler jet will take its final flight at the end of May from Naval Air Station Whidbey to The Museum of Flight in Seattle, where it will be decommissioned and absorbed into the museum’s permanent collection.

The public is invited to attend a talk on the history of the EA-6B Prowler set for 2 p.m. Saturday May 30 at the Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S. The Prowler will be on display all day in the museum’s parking lot.

“The Prowler will be the first electronic warfare aircraft in the museum’s collection,” said curator Dan Hagedorn in a prepared statement. “It is the missing piece that fills our story of modern military aviation.”

An EA-6B Prowler.

After 45 years in service, the Navy is retiring the Prowler jet and replacing it with new Boeing EA-18G Growlers. The last Navy Prowler flights is scheduled for June when VAQ-134 aviators will depart NAS Whidbey during an open house on base.