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Ling-Temco-Vought
A-7D Corsair IIs (with
serial 71-0341 nearest
the camera) at Nellis AFB,
Nevada, on October 7, 1987
prior to the weapons loading
competition during exercise ‘Gunsmoke
87’. Assigned to the 120th Tactical Fighter
Squadron of the Colorado Air National Guard
— winner of the first ‘Gunsmoke’ contest in 1981
— A-7D 71-0341 ultimately notched up 4,320.9 flight
hours before being retired to the boneyard at Davis-
Monthan AFB, Arizona, on November 20, 1991. Jim Dunn
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