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The squadron was awarded the Fighter Fling Banner Blaster award for their superior performance in the air-to-air gunnery arena. [citation needed] In late 1995, the squadron was detached from CVW-3 when the Navy began reducing the number of Tomcat squadrons to carrier air wings from two to one and retaining the TARPS-capable squadrons. As a non ...
The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force & Commonwealth 1918–1988. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1988. ISBN 0-85130-164-9. Jefford, C.G. RAF Squadrons, a Comprehensive record of the Movement and Equipment of all RAF Squadrons and their Antecedents since 1912. Shropshire, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1988 (second edition 2001).
Oldest currently active aircraft squadron in the U. S. Navy VFA-22: Fighting Redcocks F/A-18F: Carrier Air Wing SEVENTEEN Strike Fighter Wing Pacific: VF-63: 28 Jul 1948-Mar 1956 VA-63: Mar 1956-1 Jul 1959 VA-22: 1 Jul 1959-4 May 1990 VFA-22: 4 May 1990 – present: Homeport NAS Lemoore: VFA-25: Fist of the Fleet F/A-18E: Carrier Air Wing ELEVEN
The VD designation was in use during the World War II years, to be replaced with VJ after the war. VF Fighter Squadron This is one of the oldest aircraft squadron designators in the Navy, in use since the early 1920s and until 2006 when it was discontinued with the retirement of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat. VFA Fighter Attack Squadron
Squadron suffered severe losses in the 1941–1942 Battle of the Philippines, was withdrawn to Australia in December 1941. Returned to combat in Pacific Theater in 1944, remained in Far East Air Force after World War II ended, engaged in strategic bombardment of North Korea, 1950–1953; inactivated 1 February 1963.
No. 502 (Ulster) Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force that was reformed in September 2013, and is the oldest active reserve squadron, having been formed in 1925. The squadron took park in anti-submarine patrols and bombing sorties in the Second World War.
VF-51, Fighter Squadron 51 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy known as the "Screaming Eagles". It was originally established as VF-1 on 1 February 1943, redesignated as VF-5 on 15 July 1943, redesignated as VF-5A on 15 November 1946, redesignated VF-51 on 16 August 1948, and disestablished in March 1995. [ 1 ]
Number 1 Squadron, also known as No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron, is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was the first squadron to fly a VTOL aircraft. [ 5 ] It currently operates Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth .