Wingspan: 12.75 "
Model length: 15.25"
Code: BW07023

NOW AVAILABLE! Mastercraft Collection's Big Wings Series features BIG Mahogany wood desktop model airplane. If you've wanted a more prominent model and to dominate your collection, then this series is for you. These wood desktop model airplanes are REALLY HUGE, bigger than you've come to expect; and with our direct factory prices, you'll get a lot more value and model for your money. Words and pictures alone are not enough - you just have to see and own one for yourself to know how BIG these model airplanes are!

Now this very popular Big Wings series includes a special BIG A-7D Wood Model Airplane: the US Air Force's Bicentinnial Corsair, applied to aircraft number 72-0223. Chances are only here that you see a Corsair this colorful, as 72-0223 had been retired to Davis-Monthan Air Base and was subsequently scrapped. But 72-0223 lives on, in this precisely scaled wood model of the A-7D that replicates this airplane!

This model is created and handcrafted by the modelers who are making models for over 30 years now. And now they made it available for all those who serve this airplane and to those who are collecting dektop model airplanes like this.

The Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II is a carrier-based subsonic light attack aircraft design that was introduced to replace the A-4 Skyhawk in US Naval service and based on the successful supersonic F-8 Crusader aircraft produced by Chance Vought. The A-7 was one of the first combat aircraft to feature a head-up display (HUD), doppler-bounded inertial navigation system (INS), and a turbofan engine. It initially entered service with the United States Navy during the Vietnam conflict and was then adopted by the United States Air Force to replace their A-1 Skyraiders that were borrowed from the Navy as well as with the Air National Guard. Production of Corsairs continued through 1984 yielding a total of 1,569 aircraft built. The A-7 Corsair has the distinction of being the only United States single seat jet fighter/bomber of the 1960s that was designed, built, and deployed directly into the Vietnam War. The A-7 Corsair II was tagged with the nickname "SLUF" ("Short Little Ugly Feller" was the polite version) by pilots.