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CVW-17 began its first regular deployment on Carl Vinson to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean on 30 November 2010 and returned on 15 June 2011. CVW-17 completed a second deployment on Carl Vinson from November 2011 to May 2012. In October 2012, CVW-17 completed a home port change from NAS Oceana, VA to NAS Lemoore, California. [6]
Carrier Air Wing 17 - deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea from 7 August 1990 to 28 March 1991. [24] [25] Fighter Squadron 74 (Grumman F-14 Tomcat) Fighter Squadron 103 (Grumman F-14 Tomcat) Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet) Strike Fighter Squadron 83 (McDonnel Douglas F/A-18 Hornet)
The first deployment of an F-35C squadron was in 2021. 2021 was also the year of the last deployment of an F/A-18C Hornet squadron (VMFA-323). [22] The typical mix is one F/A-18F (two-seat) Super Hornet squadron (though some air wings have two F/A-18F squadrons), and three single-seat F/A-18E Super Hornet squadrons.
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 ...
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.
Its last deployment ended on 3 June 2008, and the squadron began transition training from the F/A-18C Hornet to the F/A-18E Super Hornet. In 2011, the squadron was embarked with CVW-17 for a Western Pacific and Persian Gulf deployment aboard USS Carl Vinson.
The principal purpose for embarking these CVW-11 squadrons was to complete their training evolutions prior to the strike group's first Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment. [14] On 17 June 2004, two Super Étendard jet fighters and three S-2T Turbo Trackers antisubmarine aircraft from Argentine Naval Aviation carried out touch-and-go landings ...
While on this deployment, the Death Rattlers transitioned from Operation Southern Watch to Operation Iraqi Freedom conducting sorties into Baghdad on the first night of the war. On 2 May 2005, two F/A-18 C Hornet fighter jets from VMFA-323, BuNo 164721 and BuNo 164732, collided over south-central Iraq, during a sortie from USS Carl Vinson ...