Naval Air Force Atlantic

Navy Reducing East Coast Flight Hours to Cover Costs of Overflying P-8s

A P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 is parked on the flight line of Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland. US Navy Photo

A P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 is parked on the flight line of Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland in 2016. US Navy Photo

Parts of the Atlantic fleet will reduce their flying hours for the remainder of the fiscal year to address a funding shortfall within the naval aviation flight hour budget, a Navy official told USNI News.

On the East Coast, non-deployed P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol squadrons will see a 10-percent flight hour reduction. Non-deployed expeditionary...

https://news.usni.org/2019/07/16/navy-reducing-east-coast-flight-hours-to-cover-costs-of-overflying-p-8s

Naval Aviation Facing Unexpected Budget Shortfall; Options to Slow Spending Being Considered

Seaman Sakyra Baker stands aft lookout as an F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 lands on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on Feb. 21, 2019. US Navy Photo

The naval aviation community is facing a budget shortfall of at least $100 million for the current fiscal year and may have to cut back flight hours and other operations between now and the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year, USNI News learned.

Commander of Naval Air Force...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/27/naval-aviation-facing-unexpected-budget-shortfall-options-to-slow-spending-being-considered

Navy Deactivates VFA-101 Grim Reapers, Consolidates F-35Cs at NAS Lemoore

A U.S. Navy Sailor marshals the last F-35C Lightning II to leave Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, May 23, 2019. Consolidation of F-35C resources to Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, enables the U.S. Navy to support Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) production, operational fleet transitions for both Navy and Marine Corps squadrons, testing and other requirements. US Air Force photo.

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The Navy deactivated one of its two F-35C Joint Strike Fighter training squadrons...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/23/navy-deactivates-vfa-101-grim-reapers-consolidates-f-35cs-at-nas-lemoore

Carrier Eisenhower Returns to Norfolk After Completing Sea Trials

Sailors scrub the flight deck after a countermeasure wash down aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) during an underway in the Atlantic Ocean on March 30, 2019. US Navy Photo

Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., after its first underway since 2017.

“The ship conducted the sea trials off the Virginia coast alongside engineers and shipyard employees from Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), running through a checklist of...

https://news.usni.org/2019/04/03/carrier-eisenhower-returns-norfolk-completing-sea-trials

Carrier Eisenhower Back to Sea After Planned 6-Month Repair Period Tripled in Length

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) departs Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on March 28, 2019. US Navy Photo

Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) left Naval Station Norfolk, Va., on Thursday for a brief shakedown cruise after completing a maintenance period that lasted a year longer than expected.

“Ike is currently conducting sea trials off the coast of Virginia alongside engineers and shipyard employees from Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), running through a checklist of evolutions,...

https://news.usni.org/2019/03/29/carrier-eisenhower-back-sea-planned-6-month-repair-period-tripled-length

USNI News Video: All-Female ‘Missing Woman’ Flyover Honors First Female Navy Jet Pilot

On Feb. 2, 2019, eight naval aviators based out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Va. flew four F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters in the first “missing woman’ formation to honor the passing of the first female U.S. Navy jet pilot, Capt. Rosemary Mariner.

The following is a U.S. Navy statement on the flyover.

NORFOLK, Virginia (NNS) — Honoring the life and legacy of a female pioneer in Naval aviation, the U.S. Navy will conduct Feb. 2 the first ever all-female flyover in Maynardville, Tennessee....

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/03/usni-news-video-female-missing-woman-flyover-honors-first-female-navy-jet-pilot

Navy to Honor First Female Fighter Pilot with Female-Piloted Flyover at Funeral

Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia – ENS Rosemary Conatser (later Mariner) at the controls of a fleet composite Squadron Two, VC-2, S-2 Tracker Antisubmarine Aircraft. January 9, 1975. Via U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.

The Navy will say goodbye to its first female fighter pilot with its first all-female flyover, the service told USNI News on Wednesday. 

Retired Capt. Rosemary Mariner, who served in the Navy from 1973 to 1997, had a career full of firsts: she was among...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/30/navy-honor-first-female-fighter-pilot-female-piloted-flyover-funeral

VIDEO: Navy Conducts 21-Jet Flyover During President Bush’s Interment Ceremony

Today the Navy flew a 21-jet flyover in honor of late naval aviator and 41st president George H.W. Bush. Bush died Nov. 30 at the age of 94.

More than 70 years after his near-fatal bombing mission in World War II – when his TBM Avenger operating from aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto was shot out of the sky – Bush maintained an extraordinarily close relationship with the aircraft carrier that bore his name, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). The Norfolk-based carrier honored Bush this week with a flas...

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/06/navy-conducts-21-jet-flyover-president-bushs-interment-ceremony

Experimental Navy Test Ship Weathering Hurricane Michael Off the Coast of Panama City; Warfare Center Evacuates

Sea Fighter (FSF-1) in 2005. US Navy Photo

An experimental Navy catamaran is fighting Hurricane Michael in the bay of Panama City, Fla., unable to take to sea to avoid the Category 4 storm that made landfall early afternoon on Wednesday.

The 950-ton Sea Fighter (FSF-1) is at double anchor in the bay, “engines running and nose to the wind” with a minimal crew aboard, Office of Navy Research spokesman Robert Freeman told USNI News on Wednesday.

The ship is fresh out of a maintenance period, and...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/10/experimental-navy-test-ship-weathering-hurricane-michael-off-the-coast-of-panama-city-warfare-center-evacuates

Navy Units in Florida are Bracing for Hurricane Michael

Hurricane Michael’s projected five-day path, National Hurricane Center graphic.

THE PENTAGON — The Navy is in the process of securing aircraft stationed on the Florida panhandle as the Department of Defense monitors Hurricane Michael’s track into the Gulf of Mexico, officials told USNI News on Tuesday.

Naval Air Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Whiting Field are both located on the Florida Panhandle and are within the area the National Hurricane Center expects Hurricane Michael to make...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/09/navy-braces-for-hurricane-michael

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