VFA-146
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Strike Fighter Squadron 146 also known as the "Blue Diamonds" is a United States Navy operational fleet strike fighter squadron based at Naval Air Station Lemoore California. They fly the F/A-18E Supe
VA-146 FJ-4B Fury on USS Bennington, in 1958.
VA-146 A-4Cs in August 1964
VA-146 A-7E Corsair II, in 1974.
A Soviet Tu-95RT Bear-D being intercepted by an A-7E Corsair II from VA-146 in 1984.
LTV A-7 Corsair II
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The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought.
VFA-146
…Petroleum storage complex, the first American strike against this complex. In December 1968 under the instruction of VA-125, VA-146 transitioned to the A-7B Corsair II. The squadron received its first A-7 on 4 June 1968 and deployed aboard USS Enterprise on 6 January 1969. Shortly after deployment in September 1969…
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.