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  2. List of aircraft type designators - Wikipedia

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    ICAO codes are published in ICAO Document 8643 Aircraft Type Designators [1] and are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning. While ICAO designators are used to distinguish between aircraft types and variants that have different performance characteristics affecting ATC, the codes do not differentiate between ...

  3. Grumman F-14 Tomcat - Wikipedia

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    F-14 Tomcat flight demonstration video . The F-14 Tomcat was designed as both an air superiority fighter and a long-range naval interceptor, [43] [44] [45] which enabled it to both serve as escort fighter aircraft when armed with Sparrow missiles and fleet air defense loitering interceptor role when armed with Phoenix missiles. [46]

  4. U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft tail codes - Wikipedia

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    Carrier Air Wing 15 tail code "NL" is prominently displayed on this A-7E Corsair II. Tail codes on the U.S. Navy aircraft are the markings that help to identify the aircraft's unit and/or base assignment. These codes comprise one or two letters or digits painted on both sides of the vertical stabilizer, on the top right and on the bottom left ...

  5. F-14 Tomcat operational history - Wikipedia

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    The F-14 primarily conducted air-to-air and reconnaissance missions with the U.S. Navy until the 1990s, when it was also employed as a long-range strike fighter. [2] It saw considerable action in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and was used as a strike platform in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq until its final deployment with the United States in 2006.

  6. List of airline codes (N) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators , the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator). Historical assignments are also included for completeness.

  7. VF-142 - Wikipedia

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    F-14 Tomcats from VF-142 overfly USS Dwight D. Eisenhower The squadron deployed on the 8 March 1990, to the Mediterranean for a six-month deployment once again with Dwight D. Eisenhower . Ghostriders aircrew engaged many NATO aircraft in exercise Dragon Hammer 90, and the new F-14Bs proved to be superior performers.

  8. HMS Leopard (F14) - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... (F14), was a Leopard-class Type 41 anti aircraft frigate of the ... Type 965 long-range air search radar replaced Type 960 during a ...

  9. VFA-101 - Wikipedia

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    After the West Coast FRS for the F-14 Tomcat, VF-124, was disestablished in the mid-1990s, VF-101 became the sole F-14 FRS. At the time it was based at NAS Oceana in Virginia. With the retirement of the F-14, VF-101 was deactivated in 2005. It was reactivated in 2012 and redesignated Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101).