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A right side view of a Convair UC-880 aircraft on display at an open house. The aircraft is being used to develop new in flight refueling techniques for the F/A-18A Hornet aircraft

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A right side view of a Convair UC-880 aircraft on display at an open house. The aircraft is being used to develop new in flight refueling techniques for the F/A-18A Hornet aircraft

An air-to-air left side view of a UC-880 Convair aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Test Center, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, refueling a TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft

A left front view of a UC-880 aircraft on display at the open house air show. The UC-880 is being used to develop new mid-air refueling techniques for the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft

A right side view of two F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4), parked on the runway at Pacific Missile Test Center. Two A-7 Corsair II aircraft, with wings folded, are parked in front of the hangar

An F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River is readied for launch from the No. 1 catapult aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72). Aircraft from Patuxent River are being used to test the carrier's flight deck capabilities

An air-to-air left side view of a UC-880 Convair aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Test Center (NATC), Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, refueling an NATC F-4 Phantom II aircraft. Also standing by are a TA-4J Skyhawk aircraft, background, and an NATC A-6 Intruder aircraft, foreground

An air-to-air right side view of a TA-4 Skyhawk aircraft, top, a TA-7 Corsair II aircraft, right, a T-2 Buckeye aircraft, bottom, and a T-38 Talon aircraft in flight near the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland

An air-to-air right side view of a Convair UC-880 aircraft, the only such aircraft in U.S. Navy service. The Convair is assigned to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, and is employed in Tomahawk cruiser missile testing and refueling aircraft procedures

A Convair UC-880 aircraft, the only such aircraft in U.S. Navy service, prepares to conduct an aerial refueling. The Convair is assigned to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, and is employed in Tomahawk cruise missile testing and refueling aircraft procedures

A right front view of a US Navy UC-880 aircraft parked on the tarmac during an open house. The aircraft is assigned to the Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center and is being used in the development of new refueling techniques for the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft

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Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River

State: Maryland (MD)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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16/05/1987
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A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

U.S. Navy test pilot Lt. Christopher Tabert pilots

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An air-to-air right side view of four F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Fighter Attack Squadron 125 (VFA-125). The squadron is on a 23-day deployment from Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. VFA-125 began flying the F/A-18 aircraft about 12 months ago. Squadron pilots have accumulated more than 1,500 hours in the aircraft so far

A United States Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft from Marine Aerial Refueler/ Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352 pulls onto the tarmac at Wajir air field in Northern Kenya to execute a combat off-load during Operation NOBLE RESPONSE '98

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A flight deck crew member signals to the pilot of a Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River A-6E Intruder aircraft following the plane's landing aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72). Aircraft from Patuxent River are being used to test the carrier's flight deck capabilities

US Marine Corps Corporal Joseph Calebro uses an AN/PSC-3 Satellite Communications Radio on the tarmac at Pointe Noire, Congo. Corporal Calebro is attached to VMGR-252 (Detachment Bravo) to provide KC-130 Hercules aircraft secure communications while deployed in support of PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war

150312-N-OY799-036 PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (March 12, 2015)

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