LTV A-7D 72-0176 South Dakota Air National Guard trading its bomb racks for

trading its bomb racks for spray booms to combat mosquito populations across the Portland metropolitan area

converted from the collier USS Jupiter and commissioned as America's first aircraft carrier just months earlier

and destroy ballistic missiles during their vulnerable boost phase — within seconds of launch

The four decal options capture the full arc of this carbody's service life across multiple reclassifications:

SP 1956+ — the car in the post-1956 SP lettering scheme

LTV A-7D 72-0176 South Dakota Air National Guard trading its bomb racks forThese are 1 72 scale decals for the LTV A 7D Corsair II, serial 72 0176, assigned to the 175th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the South Dakota Air National Guard one of the Midwest's frontline Guard attack units during the Cold War era. The A 7D Corsair II was the USAF's premier land based tactical attack aircraft of the 1970s and 80s, combining the TF41 turbofan engine, M61 Vulcan 20mm cannon, and a state of the art navigation and weapons delivery