Patrol Wing - Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 10 and 11

Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 10 and 11

• Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing Ten, NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Established for the third time at NAS Moffett Field, CA, 1 June 1981. Relocated to NAS Whidbey Island, WA, 1 July 1994. Includes VP-1, VP-40, VP-46, VP-69, VPU-2 and VQ-1. Previously included VP-9 and VP-47, which were transferred to Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing Two; VP-40 and VP-48, which were inactivated during the Navy's post-Cold War drawdown in the mid-1990s; and VQ-2, which was merged into VQ-1 in 2011. Although not part of the wing, VP-31, the Pacific Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) for the P-3B, P-3C and EP-3E, was also located at NAS Moffett Field and was disestablished as part of that installation's BRAC closure.

• Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing Eleven, NAS Jacksonville, Florida. Redesignated as FAW-11 at NS San Juan, P.R., on 1 November 1942. In April 1950 relocated to NAS Jacksonville, Fla. Received control of VP-24 30 October 1972. Redesignated Patrol Wing Eleven on 30 June 1973. Includes VP-5, VP-8, VP-10, VP-16, VP-26, VP-45 and VP-62. Previously included VP-24, VP-49 and VP-56, which were inactivated during the Navy's post-Cold War drawdown in the mid-1990s, and VPU-1, which was later merged into VPU-2 in 2012. Although not part of the wing, VP-30, the combined P-3C, P-8A and EP-3E Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) for the Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet is also located at NAS Jacksonville.