I took this slide from another VA-303 A-7B while enroute back to NAS Alameda, CA. after the completion of a multi day war at sea exercise with the USS Constellation (CV-64). During the exercise the VA-303 A-7B aircraft simulated both high and low level cruise missiles. The carrier strike group was located about 250 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. The squadron operated out of NAS Whidbey Island, WA. for the event.

Delivered new to USN on 26 September 1968. Assigned to VA-56, VA-146, VA-93, VA-155, VA-125, VA-153, VA-303, and VA-304. Transferred to NATTC at Millington, TN as an instructional airframe. Stricken on 16 October 1986. It is currently on display at the Chennault Aviation and History Museum in Monroe, Louisiana.

This A-7A was assigned to VA-93 from April 1973 through April 1977. It arrived at MASDC on 26 May 1977 and was stricken in September 1980. It was then assigned as a spare parts a/c for the Portuguese Air Force A-7P program.