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Lexington marked her 200,000th arrested landing on 17 October 1967, was redesignated CVT-16 on 1 January 1969 and was redesignated again as AVT-16 on 1 July 1978. She continued as a training carrier for the next 22 years until she was relieved by Forrestal , and Lexington was decommissioned and struck on 8 November 1991.
The jump from HC-11 to HC-16 occurred because HC-16 was originally established by the Naval Air Training Command as HCT-16 to provide Plane Guard services aboard the Naval Air Training Command's training Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16). It was redesignated HC-16 when it was administratively transferred from the Naval Air Training ...
English: The U.S. Navy training carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16) putting out to sea in Pensacola, Florida, (USA), circa on 20 January 1987. The ship was based in Pensacola and served as a training ship for naval aviators until 1991.
List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy Hull no. Name Image Class Commissioned Decommissioned Service life Status Ref. CV-1 Langley: Langley : 20 March 1922 27 February 1942 19 years, 344 days Sunk near Cilacap, Java in 1942 [13] [14] [15] CV-2 Lexington: Lexington (lead ship) 14 December 1927 8 May 1942 14 years, 145 days
USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class aircraft carrier in commission from 1943–1991, now a museum in Corpus Christi, Texas List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
In the later Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, as Lexington's Air Group Commander, Ault led Lexington's bombers into combat in the successful May 7 attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō, sinking the light carrier fifteen minutes after the first attack. [12] [13] The Shōhō was the first Japanese aircraft carrier sunk in World War ...
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Original - Grumman F6F-3 fighter landing aboard the Essex Class carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) - flagship of Task Force 58 - during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944. Reason Great World War II Photo. Articles this image appears in *Battle of the Philippine Sea Creator US Navy. Support as nominator CPacker 05:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)