A6’s yes we shared our shop with VA-115. It was a shot up bird from VA-115 that crashed into the bow Oct 24 1972. I lost my two best friends that night.
I have a question for you that you might know something about. In the late 1970’s somewhere maybe 1977-78 the A-6’s had some sort of malfunction that basically made them have catrostrophic failure right after launch usually in sight of the carrier. I can’t remember why I just remember an A-6 stand down caused by it and it involved several A-6’s launching from the America. My memory is a little bad but I’m pretty certain it was an A-6.
I think my dad was the VA-115 maintenance chief during that cruise and then Leading Chief the following cruise.