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YS-3A prototype S-3 escape system testing. In the mid-1960s, the United States Navy (USN) formulated the VSX (Heavier-than-air, Anti-submarine, Experimental) requirement, which sought a dedicated anti-submarine aircraft capable of flying off of its aircraft carriers as a replacement for its existing inventory of piston-engined Grumman S-2 Trackers.
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 ...
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.
Viking Aircraft Inc. a defunct aircraft manufacturer (2000-2005) that was based in Panama City Beach, Florida, United States; Viking Aircraft LLC, an aircraft manufacturer based in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, United States; Viking Airlines AB, a defunct privately owned charter airline based in Stockholm, Sweden; FlyViking AS; a defunct Norwegian airline
An S-2E Tracker of VS-41. VS-41 was originally activated in 1960 to train the crews of Grumman S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft for the United States Navy.Two squadrons equipped with the Tracker were based each on the anti-submarine carriers (CVS) of the Essex-class to counter the threat of the large Soviet submarine fleet.
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 ...
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Initial variant for Lockheed S-3, entered production in August 1972. TF34-GE-100. Variant for Fairchild A-10A, first flown in A-10 during May 1972. Production began in October 1974. TF34-GE-400A. Improved version of GE-2 for Lockheed S-3.