Carrier Air Wing - Active Carrier Air Wings / Identification

Active Carrier Air Wings / Identification

Atlantic Fleet air wings have an "A" as the first letter of their tailcode identification, while those of the Pacific Fleet have an "N". The "A" or "N" is followed by a letter that uniquely identifies the air wing (e.g., CVW-1 aircraft, part of the Atlantic Fleet, have a tail code of "AB").

Airwing Insignia Tailcode Assigned Aircraft Carrier Homeport
CVW-1* AB USS Enterprise NAS Oceana
CVW-2 NE USS Abraham Lincoln NAS Lemoore
CVW-3 AC USS Harry S. Truman NAS Oceana
CVW-5 NF USS George Washington NAF Atsugi
CVW-7 AG USS Dwight D. Eisenhower NAS Oceana
CVW-8 AJ USS George H.W. Bush NAS Oceana
CVW-9 NG USS John C. Stennis NAS Lemoore
CVW-11 NH USS Nimitz NAS Lemoore
CVW-14 NK USS Ronald Reagan NAS Lemoore
n/a n/a n/a USS Theodore Roosevelt 1 NS Norfolk
CVW-17 NA USS Carl Vinson NAS Lemoore

* USS Enterprise planned to decomission in December 2012; CVW-1 to be reassigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2013.
1 Current law provides for 10 CVWs; of the eleven active carriers, one is nearly always undergoing Refueling and Complex Overhaul and has no air wing assigned.

The single reserve former carrier air wing was:

Official Name Insignia Headquarters Tailcode
Tactical Support Wing
Naval Air Station Atlanta AF

TSW was redesignated effective 1 April 2007.

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