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Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) was established on 1 November 1966 and assigned to USS Forrestal. Although an Atlantic Fleet carrier, Forrestal ' s first deployment with CVW-17 was to Vietnam , from June to September 1967.
The four Carrier Air Wings below were established after 20 Dec 1963 as "Carrier Air Wings". CVW-17 which is a current Carrier Air Wing was also established after 20 Dec 1963 making five total Carrier Air Wings established after 20 Dec 1963 Wing Tail Code Insignia Notes [1] Carrier Air Wing TEN (2nd use) CVW-10: NM
Carrier Air Group Seventeen (CVG-17) was a designation used by the United States Navy to identify two unrelated Carrier Air Groups; the first of which was established on 1 January 1943 as Carrier Air Group Seventeen and disestablished on 1 April 1992 as Carrier Air Wing Six; and the second of which was established as Carrier Air Group Eighty Two on 1 April 1944 and ultimately disestablished as ...
Lemoore is home to aircraft assigned to the following Carrier Air Wings. Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2), assigned to USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9), assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW-17), assigned to USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
VFA-83 was then reassigned to Carrier Air Wing Seven and deployed again on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from October 2006 to May 2007. As USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was refitted in 2008, the strike fighter squadrons of CVW-7 were assigned to CVW-17 and conducted a work-up period on USS George Washington ...
Atlantic Fleet air wings have an "A" as the first letter of their tail code identification, while those of the Pacific Fleet have an "N". The "A" or "N" is followed by a letter that uniquely identifies the air wing (e.g., CVW-1 aircraft, part of the Atlantic Fleet, have a tail code of "AB"). [23] [24]
The Cougars spent much of 2017 preparing for their upcoming deployment on board USS Theodore Roosevelt as part of Carrier Air Wing 17 (CVW 17). The Cougars successfully Carrier Qualified (CQ) all nine of its pilots on board Theodore Roosevelt in January following a short Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) detachment in NAF El Centro, California.
In January 2012, after returning from UDP duties in Japan, the squadron returned to NAS Lemoore, but apparently was not assigned to one of the West Coast air wings until around August 2012, as it temporarily took sister squadron VFA-25's place within CVW-17. VFA-25 was returned to its former slot within CVW-17, thus replacing VFA-94.