2023 Australian International Airshow Cessna A-37B Dragonfly

During the 2023 Australian International Airshow, there was one aircraft that many people didn&pay too much attention to, or know very little about it. Am referring to the Cessna A-37B Dragonfly, as operated by the Temora Aviation Museum and now part of 100 Squadron. The Cessna A-37B Dragonfly is a development of an aircraft originally designed in 1952 as a trainer for the US Air Force. The A-37B in its current configuration is designed as a ground attack aircraft and was developed to meet the COIN (counter insurgency) role. The US Government supplied 254 Cessna A-37B Dragonfly’s to the Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) during the Vietnam War. Throughout the war, A-37s were used extensively in support of Australian ground forces with many missions being directed by Australian Forward Air Controllers (FAC’s). After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, ninety-five VNAF Cessna A-37B aircraft were captured and incorporated into the Vietnamese People’s Air Force, the aircraft was among those...