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US Navy A-7 Corsairs began being phased out of the fleet during the mid-1980s with the arrival of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. A-7 squadrons of the United States Navy Reserve transitioned concurrent with (but prior to the completion of) all Regular Navy squadrons. The last Navy A-7s were retired by the last fleet operational squadrons ...
The US Navy retired its last Corsair IIs in May 1991. Currently active-duty squadrons or units that were former A-7 operators. A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 160537) from attack squadron VA-22 Fighting Redcocks at the Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, 1987 A VA-27 A-7E dropping bombs over Vietnam, 1970.
Attack Squadron 82 (VA-82) was established on 1 May 1967 as a light attack squadron flying the Vought A-7A Corsair II. The Marauders made their first deployment aboard USS America during her maiden cruise to the waters off North Vietnam in April 1968. They returned to Southeast Asia in September 1969 aboard USS Coral Sea. VA-82 A-7C over Vietnam
The squadron operated in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea until 11 May. 02 January 1970: The squadron set sail on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt From Mayport, Florida. This was the ships 18th Mediterranean cruise, returning on 27 July, 1970. VA-215 A-7B Corsair IIs over Vietnam, 1971. Note that the guns of both aircraft have been fired.
A-7D painted as an A-7E at the Chico Air Museum A A-7D Corsair on display at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. 68-8220 – Tomah Veterans Hospital, Wisconsin. [citation needed] 68-8222 – Dakota Territory Air Museum, Minot International Airport, Minot, North Dakota [25] [better source needed] 68-8223 – Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 728, Danville ...
7 and 11 February 1965: The squadron participated in Flaming Dart I and II, reprisal strikes against targets in North Vietnam following a Viet Cong attack on the American advisors compound at Pleiku and the American billet in Qui Nhon, South Vietnam. March 1965: The squadron participated in Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing of military ...
The Hellrazors received their final designation VA-174 on 1 July 1966 after becoming the first US Navy squadron to receive the A-7A Corsair II. It was the second squadron to bear the VA-174 designation, the first VA-174 was disestablished on 25 January 1950. The squadron was disestablished on 30 June 1988. [2]
In January 1968, squadron aircraft provided close air support for U.S. Marines besieged at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. In October 1968, the squadron, by then the last tactical propeller driven squadron in the Navy, transitioned from the A-1 to the A-7 Corsair II. After only four months of training, the squadron returned to the Vietnam War aboard ...