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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.
CVW-17 began its first regular deployment on Carl Vinson to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean on 30 November 2010 and returned on 15 June 2011. CVW-17 completed a second deployment on Carl Vinson from November 2011 to May 2012. In October 2012, CVW-17 completed a home port change from NAS Oceana, VA to NAS Lemoore, California. [6]
44-72936 – to airworthiness by private owner in Encino, California. [275] 44-72990 (unnamed) – in storage at US Army Aviation Museum at Fort Novosel, Alabama. [citation needed] 44-73081 – in storage by private owner in Hayward, California. [276] 44-73163 – to airworthiness by private owner in Hot Springs, North Carolina. [277]
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When a carrier-capable Marine squadron deploys on an aircraft carrier as a part of the U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing, it typically adopts the tail code of this Air Wing for the period of deployment. A circular letter issued by the CNO in November 1946 specified that code letters on USMC planes were to be underscored.
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