Slide taken during the 1980 Carrier Air Wing Reserve 30 annual active duty training period. This A-7B is currently on display in Alameda, California at the site of the closed Naval Air Station.

Slide taken during the Carrier Air Wing Reserve 30 annual two week active duty period. Note the screen over the air intake. This was in place whenever there was maintenance which involved running the engine. Very shortly after returning to NAS Alameda this a/c was flown to storage at MASDC. Later converted to an A-7P and transferred to the Portuguese Air Force as 5525. Crashed in Germany on 22 September 1992 after engine failure. The pilot successfully ejected.

VA-304 "Firebirds", NAS Alameda, CA. This jet's engine exploded in flight on 27 March 1986. She crashed in/near Ownes Lake, CA, killing her pilot Lt. John E. Harris (31). R.I.P.