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Carrier Air Group Seventeen (CVG-17) was a designation used by the United States Navy to identify two unrelated Carrier Air Groups; the first of which was established on 1 January 1943 as Carrier Air Group Seventeen and disestablished on 1 April 1992 as Carrier Air Wing Six; and the second of which was established as Carrier Air Group Eighty Two on 1 April 1944 and ultimately disestablished as ...
See CVW-3 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section. CVG-4(1st) Established as Ranger Air Group on 1 July 1938, still active. See CVW-1 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section. CVG-5(1st) Established on 1 Jan 1943, still active. See CVW-5 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section. CVG-6(1st) Established 15 Mar 1943, disestablished 29 Oct 1945.
On 11 September 2014 at 17:40 hrs local time, two F/A-18Cs from CVW-17 crashed in the western Pacific Ocean whilst Carl Vinson was in her area of operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The planes where attached to Strike Squadron 94 and Strike Fighter Squadron 113 and collided 7 miles from the carrier, an area approximately 290 miles west ...
Redesignated as one of CVG-17(2nd)'s initial squadrons VF-172 (1950) Checkmates, Bluebolts (1950) F8F FH F2H: VBF-82: 20 Aug 1945-15 Nov 1946 VF-18A: 15 Nov 1946-11 Aug 1948 VF-172: 11 Aug 1948 – 1 Nov 1955 VA-172: 1 Nov 1955 – 15 Jan 1971 VA-172 15 January 1971 Redesignated as one of CVG-17(2nd)'s initial squadrons VF-173: Jesters F8F F4U ...
At this time, CAG-17 detached from the carrier, which subsequently took on the newly formed CVG-8, along with four night fighting Hellcats of VF(N)-76. During 15–20 March, Bunker Hill steamed for Majuro, Marshall Islands. At this point, CVG-8 reported 41 F6F-3s of VF-8, 32 SB2C-1Cs of VB-8, 22 TBF-1Cs of VT-8, and a flag F6F-3 on board, along ...
CVG-13, Carrier Air Group 13: 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46 Navy Air Reserve units at NAS Denver November 1946 The "P" code issued to this NAS was a controlled duplicate of the same code letter given to CVG-10. Code changed to "7P" in 1956. CVG-13, Carrier Air Group 10: July 1953 Tail code changed to "AK" in November 1956.
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Two years later, on 1 September 1948, all carrier air groups became CVG regardless of their carrier affiliation. On 20 December 1963, Carrier Air Groups were retitled Wings, and the acronym CVG became CVW. [3] Replacement Air Groups, which were set up in 1958, became Combat Readiness Air Groups on 1 April 1963.