Usmc Aviation Posters Wall Art

Usmc Aviation Posters — 3 museum-grade prints on the theme. The Bell AH-1Z Viper completed the US Marine Corps H-1 upgrade program alongside the UH-1Y Venom, replacing legacy AH-1W Super Cobras with twin-engine four-blade gunships carrying Hellfire, Hydra rockets, and a nose-mounted M197 20mm cannon. HMLA-369 Gunfighters, activated at MCAS Camp Pendleton, is one of the West Coast Marine light attack squadrons flying composite Viper-Venom detachments on Pacific deployments — the same unit lineage that carried Super Cobra nose art into the modern MAGTF era. The Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II is the short take-off and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, combining low-observable shaping with a Rolls-Royce lift fan and vectoring rear nozzle so US Marine Corps aviators can operate from amphibious assault ships and austere forward strips. VMFA-211 Wake Island Avengers, assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 13 under the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Yuma, Arizona, received their first F-35Bs on 9 May 2016 and were redesignated from VMA-211 to VMFA-211 on 30 June 2016 — the Corps' second fleet squadron to adopt the Lightning II after VMFA-121's earlier transition. The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II extended the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier into a second-generation ground-attack platform capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing from amphibious assault ships. VMAT-203 trained USMC and allied naval aviators at Cherry Point for decades; the squadron was redesignated as a Fleet Replacement Detachment in 2021 as the Corps wound down AV-8B operations in favour of the F-35B.

Updated 14 Jun 2026