Vought V-141 USAAC Wright Field Materiel Division 29 March 1936

These are 1/72 scale decals for the Vought V-141, as demonstrated to the United States Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Ohio on 29 March 1936, wearing natural metal with an Insignia Red (FS 11136) nose section, pre-war national insignia with red center dot in four sizes, and the distinctive red and white rudder stripes.

The Vought V-141 was a single-seat monoplane fighter developed as a private venture by Chance Vought Aircraft, derived directly from the Northrop 3-A design that Vought had acquired rights to develop further. Demonstrated to the Army Air Corps at Wright Field in March 1936, the V-141 competed for a USAAC fighter contract against the Seversky P-35 and Curtiss P-36 — ultimately losing out, but proving sufficiently capable that Vought continued development into the refined V-143 export variant.

The V-141's place in aviation history is secured not by its own service career — it had none — but by what it led to. The V-143 was sold to Imperial Japan in 1937, evaluated by the Naval Air Technical Arsenal as the AXV1, and its design lessons are widely credited as having directly influenced the development of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. The chain runs directly: Northrop 3-A → Vought V-141 → Vought V-143/AXV1 → Zero. The Wright Field Materiel Division seal and Army Air Corps wings are included on the decal sheet. Includes four national insignia in two sizes and two rudder stripe size options.

The crucial middle link in one of aviation history's most remarkable design lineages — a natural companion to both the Northrop 3-A XP-948 and Vought AXV1 listings. Please allow some time for decal printing and shipping.