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The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Corporation.Because of its characteristic sound, it was nicknamed the "War Hoover" after the vacuum cleaner brand.
Navy One is the call sign of any United States Navy aircraft carrying the president of the United States. [ 1 ] There has only been one aircraft designated as Navy One: a Lockheed S-3 Viking , BuNo 159387 , assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35 , which transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the ...
The last S-2G Tracker in VS-37 with an S-3A Viking of VS-21 the red tails. Starting in 1960, the squadron made its long association with the USS Hornet CVS-12 that would last until 1969. The following year (1961), the squadron split in two with one part remaining VS-37 while the other becoming VS-35 . [ 4 ]
Despite the Vigilante's useful service, it was expensive and complex to operate and occupied significant amounts of precious flight deck and hangar deck space aboard both conventional and nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at a time when carrier air wings, with the introduction of the F-14 Tomcat and S-3 Viking, were averaging 90 aircraft, many ...
VS-35, Sea Control Squadron 35, known as the Blue Wolves was a carrier-based United States Navy squadron based out of Naval Air Station North Island in California.The squadron flew the Lockheed S-3B Viking and their mission was mining, undersea and surface warfare, electronic reconnaissance and analysis, over the horizon targeting, and aerial refueling.
VS-21's first operation deployment with CVW-5 occurred between 15 and 24 October November 1991, largely occurring in the Western Pacific and the Sea of Japan. [3] An S-3B Viking of VS-21 at NAF Atsugi in November 1994. VS-21's first Persian Gulf deployment since 1990 began on 15 April 1992, arriving in the region on 10 August.
A TF34 attached to an A-10 Thunderbolt II A TF34 mounted on the starboard pylon of an S-3B Viking aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II; IML Addax; Lockheed S-3 Viking; Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel; Sikorsky S-72
A United States Navy Lockheed S-3 Viking from USS Nimitz is lost near Sardinia with all four aviators killed. [42] 22 November United States Navy LTV A-7E-11-CV Corsair II, BuNo 158678, 'AJ-310', of VA-82 from the USS Nimitz air wing and based at Cecil Field, Florida, crashed at 1200 hrs roughly 120 mi (190 km) northwest of Sardinia. Aircraft ...