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Lexington marked her 200,000th arrested landing on 17 October 1967, was redesignated CVT-16 on 1 January 1969 and was redesignated again as AVT-16 on 1 July 1978. She continued as a training carrier for the next 22 years until she was relieved by Forrestal , and Lexington was decommissioned and struck on 8 November 1991.
The jump from HC-11 to HC-16 occurred because HC-16 was originally established by the Naval Air Training Command as HCT-16 to provide Plane Guard services aboard the Naval Air Training Command's training Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16). It was redesignated HC-16 when it was administratively transferred from the Naval Air Training ...
English: The U.S. Navy training carrier USS Lexington (AVT-16) putting out to sea in Pensacola, Florida, (USA), circa on 20 January 1987. The ship was based in Pensacola and served as a training ship for naval aviators until 1991.
AVT-8 Franklin class (unreconstructed ships): Franklin, Bunker Hill, Leyte, Antietam, Tarawa, Philippine Sea; AVT-16 Lexington class (training carrier): Lexington; LPH-4 Boxer class (helicopter assault conversions): Boxer, Princeton, Valley Forge
English: A U.S. Navy Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk of Training Wing 3 (TW-3) waits behind the blast deflector for its turn at the catapult as another Skyhawk clears the flight deck of the auxiliary aircraft landing training ship USS Lexington (AVT-16) during pilot carrier training in the Gulf of Mexico, 1 April 1989.
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English: View of the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) with aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 (CVG-16) landing, in November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of a Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 16 (VB-16), as a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 16 (VF-16) lands and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 16 (VT-16 ...
A VRC-40 C-1 Trader on the USS Lexington (AVT-16) in 1985. Maintaining and flying the squadron's 14 aircraft are nearly 320 enlisted personnel and 42 officers. Unlike most squadrons, VRC-40 does not deploy as a unit.