LTV A-7 Corsair II
The A-7 Corsair II was an attack plane like the F-8 Crusader. It was made by Ling-Temco-Vought. It first flew in 1965, and went into militaries in 1967. It can take off from aircraft carriers, and can carry bombs meant to destroy enemies on the ground.Later the Corsair ll was replaced by the F/A-18 Hornet.
Note that it is called the "Corsair II" because there was an airplane called the F4U Corsair.
LTV A-7 Corsair II Media
The first A-7 mock-up in 1964
YA-7D-1-CV AF Serial No. 67-14582, the first USAF YA-7D, 2 May 1968. Note the Navy-style refueling probe (retracted beside the cockpit in the standard position, not the air test data probe on the nose cone, which is part of the flight testing equipment) and the modified Navy Bureau Number used as its USAF tail number.
A-7D-7-CV Corsair IIs 70-0976, 70-0989 and 70-0970 of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing in the skies over Southeast Asia. '976 and '989 were retired to AMARC in 1992, '970 is on permanent display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
A VA-192 A-7E over Vietnam. This aircraft was lost on 2 November 1972.
VA-147 was the first operational USN A-7 squadron, in 1967.
Lynn Garrison in a Chance Vought F4U-7 Corsair leads A-7 Corsair IIs of VA-147, over NAS Lemoore, California on 7 July 1967 prior to the A-7's first deployment to Vietnam on USS Ranger. The A-7A "NE-300" is the aircraft of the Air Group Commander (CAG) of Attack Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2).
A-7Bs of CVW-16 on USS Ticonderoga in 1968
3d TFS A-7D-10-CV Corsair II 71-0309 at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1973
A-7 Corsair II of the Iowa (IA) and South Dakota (SD) Air National Guard
A-7Es on USS Independence in 1983
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