US Air Force AC-130 gunships and US Navy A-6A Intruder and A-7E Corsair II attack jets bombed the facility during the Mayaguez incident on May 15, 1975. As for the other airframes, lack of trained pilots, poor maintenance and a chronic shortage of spare parts ensured that only a handful of these were still airworthy when the AFKLA was neutralized by the PAVN in February 1979 during the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.