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The 689th Combat Communications Wing was a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. The wing was activated on 9 October 2009 as a subordinate unit of Twenty-Fourth Air Force. On 5 June 2013, the wing was inactivated, along with the 3d Combat Communications Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy.
Aida de Acosta flying the airship Baladeuse in 1903 – the first woman to pilot a powered aircraft. This is a list of women aviators — women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and patrons. It also includes a list of their relevant organisations such as the Betsy Ross Air Corps and Women's Royal Air Force
LCDR Janet Marnane was the first woman to report to a Carrier Air Group (CAG) staff in the U.S. Navy. [7] RADM Marsha J. Evans became the first woman to be Commander, U.S. Navy Recruiting Command. [7] Two women, LTJG Russell and LTJG Schweinfirth, completed a deployment aboard a combatant when they performed 179 days TAD aboard USS Fox (CG-33). [7]
American also promoted the first female captain of a major U.S. airline in 1986 and the following year had the first all-woman flight crew. [188] In other countries, women were starting to fly as pilots, such as Turi Widerøe, who was hired in late 1968, for Scandinavian Airlines System and Aeroflot had already hired women pilots. [189]
The 689th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 25th Air Division , stationed at Mount Hebo Air Force Station , Oregon. It was inactivated on 30 June 1979.
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
[11] [12] The aircraft was later recovered and loaded on a Military Sealift Command ship for transport back to the United States. [13] [14] VFA-211 is part of CVW-11, currently attached to the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The recovered aircraft is loaded aboard USNS Mendonca (T-AKR-303) at the Port of Augusta, Sicily, 16 August 2022