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Air Force Wing Date First Activated Base Aircraft Tail Code 6th Attack Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 49 WG: 1 August 1943 [263] Holloman AFB, New Mexico: MQ-9 [264] 9th Attack Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 49 WG: 15 January 1941 [265] Holloman AFB, New Mexico: MQ-9 [264 ...
A B-24 with squadron code 2C, denoting the 838th Bombardment Squadron of the 487th Bombardment Group (tail Square P) A B-17 with squadron code LL, denoting the 401st Bombardment Squadron of the 91st Bombardment Group (tail Triangle A) A B-17 with squadron code VE, denoting the 532d Bombardment Squadron of the 381st Bombardment Group (tail ...
The U. S. Navy's aircraft visual identification system uses tail codes and modex to visually identify the aircraft's purpose and organization. Carrier air wing (CVW) tail codes denote which fleet the air wing belongs; A for Atlantic Fleet and N for Pacific Fleet. All squadrons display their CVW's tail code as follows, regardless of aircraft type:
The first Eighth Air Force aircraft to receive unit markings were the Spitfires of the 4th and 31st Fighter Groups training with RAF Fighter Command in September 1942. The markings were two-letter fuselage squadron codes located on one side of the national insignia and a single letter aircraft code on the other side.
On the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber, lacking a tail, the number appears on the nose gear door. Individual agencies have each evolved their own system of serial number identification. Aircraft serials are part of the Aircraft Visual Identification System, which also includes the aircraft's tail code and Modex.
Air Force One: 27000 VC-137C SAM 27000: Air Force One: 82-8000 (28000) Boeing VC-25A: Air Force One Air Force One photo op incident: 92-9000 (29000) Boeing VC-25A: Air Force One: 17171 Douglas C-117D: Sólheimasandur Plane Crash: 37396 Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon: Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon No. 37396: 39939 Beech SNB-1 Kansan: Cubana de Aviación Flight ...
International operating agency: Arab Air Cargo Kazakhstan: UP [1] UP-AAA01 to UP-ZZZ99 (Suffix letters refer to aircraft type). Changed from UN to avoid confusion with the United Nations. Kenya: 5Y [3] 5Y-AAA to 5Y-ZZZ Kiribati: T3 [2] T3-AAA to T3-ZZZ Kosovo: Z6 plus national emblem [19] Z6-AAA to Z6-ZZZ Kuwait: 9K [3] 9K-AAA to 9K-ZZZ ...
This article lists the airlift squadrons of the United States Air Force. The purpose of an airlift squadron is to organize and effect the delivery of supplies or personnel, usually via military transport aircraft such as the C-17 Globemaster III and C-130 Hercules .