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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 ...
F-14 Tomcat flight demonstration video . The F-14 Tomcat was designed as both an air superiority fighter and a long-range naval interceptor, [41] [42] [43] 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. [44]
An F-14 Tomcat with a commanding officer's modex of 101 on the nose, fin tip, and the top of the flaps. A C-1 Trader displaying 000 (aka "triple nuts") on the nose.. A modex is a number that is part of the Aircraft Visual Identification System, along with the aircraft's tail code.
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. [3] 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.
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.
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).
Multiple designation systems have been used to specify United States military aircraft. The first system was introduced in 1911 by the United States Navy, but was discontinued six years later; [1] the first system similar to that used today was designed in 1919 when the US Army's Aeronautical Division became the United States Army Air Service.
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.