This A-24B — once a frontline dive bomber built to attack enemy shipping and ground targets — was acquired by the City of Portland and modified to carry agricultural spraying equipment
The operation represented one of the CIA's most ambitious and least-known covert air campaigns of the Cold War era
assigned to the Naval Air Materiel Center (NAMC)
and enhanced survivability systems ensure the Thunderbolt II remains a highly relevant and lethal close air support platform well into its fifth decade of service
and the early Cold War before finding its final home in a museum
Fairchild-Republic A-10C 78-0618 Idaho Air National Guard This A-24B — once aThese are 1 72 scale decals for Fairchild Republic A 10C Thunderbolt II 78 0618, assigned to the 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard, in a striking commemorative World War II camouflage scheme. The 190th Fighter Squadron is part of the 124th Fighter Wing, Idaho Air National Guard, based at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho one of the Air National Guard's premier A 10 units, with a long and distinguished history of close air support operations.