List of United States Navy aircraft wings

This is a list of United States Navy aircraft wings. The U.S. Navy first used the term "wing" in 1935 when patrol squadrons operating together in the same geographical area were for the first time loosely designated patrol wings, however these "wings" lacked any formal organization or headquarters staff. In 1937 the Navy's first wings were created when five Patrol Wings were formally established to exercise command of its patrol squadrons. A year later it organized the squadrons flying from the five aircraft carriers in commission at the time into Carrier Air Groups. Those Carrier Air Groups established in 1938 are the forerunners of today's Carrier Air Wings. Today the U.S. Navy operates both Aircraft Carrier based Carrier Air Wings and land based Functional Wings and Type Wings. Carrier Air Wings are operational units made up of squadrons of different types of aircraft that deploy aboard aircraft carriers. The Navy's land based wings are organized either to perform a specific function (Functional Wings) or around a specific aircraft type (Type Wings). Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings, Test Wings and Training Wings are examples of functional wings, these wings may consist of a single type of aircraft or of a variety of types needed to perform a wing's specific function. Type Wings consist of squadrons of a single type of aircraft, they are non-deploying "force providers" that provide combat ready squadrons or detachments to deploying Carrier Air Wings or to other Navy or joint forces. All Navy aircraft wings whether they are Carrier Air Wings or land based Type or Functional Wings are commanded by a Navy Captain, however; in the case of a Training Air Wing or Naval Test Wing a U.S. Marine Corps Colonel is sometimes assigned as commander as those wings conduct training or test and evaluation for both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. Commanders of Carrier Air Wings are informally addressed as "CAG" which is a hold over of the original title from 1938 of Carrier Air Group commander, and commanders of functional or type wings are addressed as "Commodore" which is a traditional Naval title for an officer exercising command over multiple units commanded by Commanding Officers (individual ships or aircraft squadrons).

Current Navy Air Wings

The Navy currently operates nine Carrier Air Wings and twenty three land based Type Wings and Functional Wings.

Current Carrier Air Wings

Carrier Air Wings were formally established on 1 July 1938 when the position of Carrier Air Group Commander was created. Prior to that date squadrons which operated from an aircraft carrier were informally referred to as that ship's "air group" with usually the senior squadron commanding officer being responsible for the group as a whole. When a separate Air Group Commander position was created those informal air groups were formally established as the "name of ship" Air Group creating "Lexington Air Group" (USS Lexington (CV 2)), "Saratoga Air Group" (USS Saratoga (CV 3)), "Ranger Air Group" (USS Ranger (CV 4)), "Yorktown Air Group" (USS Yorktown (CV 5)) and "Enterprise Air Group" (USS Enterprise (CV 6)). Two of those Carrier Air Groups still exist today as Carrier Air Wings ONE and THREE. On 20 December 1963 all Carrier Air Groups which were then in existence were redesignated Carrier Air Wings (CVW). Of the nine current Carrier Air Wings, two were established before WWII, four during WWII, two during the period of the Korean War and one during the period of the Vietnam War. The table below lists the nine currently active Carrier Air Wings.

A carrier air wing currently consists of eight squadrons and one detachment: Four Strike Fighter (VFA) squadrons totaling 44 aircraft, a mix of F/A-18E Super Hornet and F/A-18F Super Hornet squadrons with in some airwings, a F-35C Lightning II squadron which may be either a USN VFA squadron or a USMC Fighter Attack (VMFA) squadron in place of one of the Super Hornet squadrons; one Electronic Attack (VAQ) squadron of seven EA-18G Growlers; one Airborne Command and Control (VAW) squadron of five E-2D Hawkeyes; one Helicopter Sea Combat (HSC) squadron of five MH-60S Seahawks; one Helicopter Maritime Strike (HSM) squadron of eleven MH-60R Seahawks; and one detachment of either two Fleet Logistics Support (VRC) squadron C-2A Greyhound or three Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission (VRM) squadron CMV-22B Osprey Carrier Onboard Delivery aircraft (COD)s. In the near future a second detachment, a detachment of five MQ-25A Stingray aerial refueling tankers will be included in each Carrier Air Wing.

Active Carrier Air Wings (CVW). CVWs were titled Carrier Air Groups (CVG, CVAG, CVBG) prior to 20 Dec 1963.

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! Wing!! Insignia !! Operational Commander!! Administrative Commander !! Lineage !! Tail Code

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-1||75px|center||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 8 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic || align=left | Ranger Air Group: 1 Jul 1938-3 Aug 1943 CVG-4(1st): 3 Aug 1943-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-1: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-1(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-1: 20 Dec 1963–present ||AB

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-2||85px|center||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 1 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|CVBG-74: 1 May 1945-15 Nov 1946 CVBG-1: 15 Nov 1946- 1 Sep 1948 CVG-2(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-2: 20 Dec 1963–present ||NE

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-3||85px|center||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 2 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Saratoga Air Group: 1 Jul 1938-25 Sep 1943 CVG-3(1st): 25 Sep 1943-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-3: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-3(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-3: 20 Dec 1963–present ||AC

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-5||85px|center||Commander Carrier Strike Group 5 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|CVG-5(1st): 1 Jan 1943-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-5: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-5(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-5: 20 Dec 1963–present ||NF

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-7 ||85px|center||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 10 ||Commander Naval Air Force Atlantic ||align=left| CVG-18: 2 Jul 1943-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-7: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-7(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-7: 20 Dec 1963–present||AG

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-8|| 85px|center ||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 12 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic ||align=left| CVG-8(2nd): 9 Apr 1951-20 Dec 1963 CVW-8 20 Dec 1963–present||AJ

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-9|| 85px|center ||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 3 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left| CVG-9 (3rd): 26 Mar 1952-20 Dec 1963 CVW-9: 20 Dec 1963–present||NG

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-11||85px|center||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 9 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left| CVG-11(1st): 10 Oct 1942-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-11: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-11(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-11: 20 Dec 1963–present||NH

|style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:center;" |CVW-17||style="white-space: nowrap;"| 85px|center ||Commander, Carrier Strike Group 11 ||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left| CVW-17: 1 Nov 1966–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|1966: AA 2012: NA

: Tail codes with a first letter "A" denote Atlantic Fleet airwings, while "N" denotes Pacific Fleet airwings.

Current Type Wings

In 1951 the first of what would come to be called a "type wing" was formed when Heavy Attack Wing ONE was established to provide specialized training for crews and ensure the upkeep of aircraft required for the safe and effective operation of the Navy's then new strategic nuclear bomber squadrons. The wing was not a deployable wing, instead it provided combat ready Heavy Attack (VAH) squadrons to deploying Carrier Air Groups. In the 1960s similar wings were established for the same purpose for the provision of the emerging technologies of airborne search radar and electronic warfare systems through the attachment of Carrier Airborne Early Warning (VAW) and Tactical Electronic Warfare (VAQ) squadrons to Carrier Air Wings. In the early 1970s the Atlantic Fleet created Type Wings for all of its carrier air wing type aircraft and in 1993 the Pacific Fleet followed suit.

Type Wings are non-deploying "force provider" wings which provide combat ready squadrons or detachments to Carrier Air Wings or for land based or other shipboard (non-aircraft carrier) deployments. Type Wing squadrons which deploy as part of a Carrier Air Wing (CVW) are based with their Type Wing when not deployed, not with their Carrier Air Wing. The exception are those squadrons assigned to the Carrier Air Wing which is forward deployed to Japan, those squadrons are based in Japan with their Carrier Air Wing, not with their Type Wings which are all based in the United States. Type Wings also operate their aircraft's Fleet Replacement Squadron.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Reports to !! Aircraft !! Lineage !! colspan=2|Squadrons / Station(s)

|align=left|Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic (SFWL)|| 85px|center|| Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic || align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|F/A-18E F/A-18F ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| LATWING 1: 1 Jun 1970-1 Sep 1993 SFWL: 1 Sep 1993–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (14) CVW VFA Sqdns (1) VFA FRS ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS Oceana, VA. NAS Oceana, VA. NAS Oceana, VA.

| align=left|Strike Fighter Wing Pacific (SFWP) || 85px|center|| Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific || align=left|F/A-18E F/A-18F||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|LATWINGPAC: 1 Jul 1973-5 Apr 1991 SFWP: 5 Apr 1991–present ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| Wing Commander & staff (13) CVW VFA Sqdns (3) CVW VFA Sqdns (1) VFA FRS ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS Lemoore, CA. NAS Lemoore, CA. MCAS Iwakuni, Japan NAS Lemoore, CA.

| align=left|Joint Strike Fighter Wing (JSFW) || 85px|center|| Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|F-35C||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| JSFW: 1 Oct 2018–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| Wing Commander & staff (3) CVW VFA Sqdns (1) CVW VFA Sqdn (1) VFA FRS||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| NAS Lemoore, CA. NAS Lemoore, CA. MCAS Iwakuni, Japan NAS Lemoore, CA.

| align=left|Electronic Attack Wing Pacific (VAQWP)||85px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|EA-18G ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|VAQWP: 1 Feb 1993-30 Mar 1998 VAQWP: 30 Mar 1998–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (8) CVW VAQ Sqdns (1) CVW VAQ Sqdn (5) Exped VAQ Sqdns (1) VAQ FRS||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS Whidbey Is, WA. NAS Whidbey Is, WA. MCAS Iwakuni, Japan NAS Whidbey Is, WA. NAS Whidbey Is, WA.

|align=left|Airborne Command & Control and Logistics Wing (ACCLW) || 85px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|E-2D C-2A MQ-25A ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| AEWWINGPAC: 1 Aug 1993-23 Sep 2005 ACCLW: 23 Sep 2005–present ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (4) CVW VAW Sqdns (4) CVW VAW Sqdns (1) CVW VAW Sqdn (1) VAW FRS (1) VRC Sqdn (1) VUQ Sqdn (1) VUQ FRS||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NBVC Pt Mugu, CA. NBVC Pt Mugu, CA. NS Norfolk, VA. MCAS Iwakuni, Japan NS Norfolk, VA. NS Norfolk, VA. NAS Patuxent River, MD. NAS Patuxent River, MD

|align=left|Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Wing (VRMW)||VRM-Wing|85px||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|CMV-22B||align=left|VRMW: 1 Oct 2019–present||align=left|Wing Commander & staff (1) VRM Sqdn (1) VRM Sqdn (1) VRM FRS ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS North Is, CA. NAS North Is, CA. NS Norfolk, VA. NAS North Is, CA.

| align=left |Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic (HSCWL) || 85px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|MH-60S MH-53E ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| HELTACWING 1: 1 Oct 1982-1 Sep 1993 HELTACWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-1 Apr 2005 HSCWL: 1 Apr 2005–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (4) CVW HSC Sqdns (3) Exped HSC Sqdns (1) HSC FRS (1) HM Sqdn (1) Station SAR unit|| style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NS Norfolk, VA. NS Norfolk, VA. NS Norfolk, VA. NS Norfolk, VA. NS Norfolk, VA. NAS Key West, FL.

| align=left |Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Pacific (HSCWP) || 85px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific ||align=left|MH-60S ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| HELTACWINGPAC: 1 Jul 1993-1 Apr 2005 HSCWP: 1 Apr 2005–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (4) CVW HSC Sqdns (1) CVW HSC Sqdn (2) Exped HSC Sqdns (1) Exped HSC Sqdn (1) HSC FRS (1) Station SAR unit (1) Station SAR unit|| align="left" style="white-space: nowrap;" |NAS North Is, CA. NAS North Is, CA. NAF Atsugi, Japan NAS North Is, CA. Anderson AFB, Guam NAS North Is, CA. NAS Lemoore, CA. NAS Whidbey Is, WA.

| align=left |Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Atlantic (HSMWL) || 90px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic || align=left|MH-60R ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| HELSEACONWING 3: Mar 1985-2 Jul 1992 HSLWING 1: 1 Jul 1992-1 Sep 1993 HSLWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-1 Jul 2006 HSMWL: 1 Jul 2006–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (4) CVW HSM Sqdns (2) Exped HSM Sqdns (1) Exped HSM Sqdn (1) HSM FRS||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NS Mayport, FL. NAS Jacksonville, FL. NS Mayport, FL. NS Rota, Spain NS Mayport, FL.

| align=left |Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Pacific (HSMWP) || 85px|center||Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific || align=left|MH-60R ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| HSLWINGPAC: 5 May 1993-1 Nov 2004 HSMWP: 1 Nov 2004–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (4) CVW HSM Sqdns (1) CVW HSM Sqdn (1) Exped HSM Sqdn (1) Exped HSM Sqdn (2) Exped HSM Sqdns (1) HSM FRS||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS North Is, CA. NAS North Is, CA. NAF Atsugi, Japan NAF Atsugi, Japan MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI. NAS North Is, CA. NAS North Is, CA.

With one exception there are no type wing Tail Codes. Type wing squadrons which are also carrier air wing squadrons are marked with the tail code of their carrier air wing. Expeditionary squadrons and Fleet Replacement Squadrons are marked with squadron unique codes. The single exception is Electronic Attack Wing Pacific (VAQWP) which has a tail code for its expeditionary squadrons.

Current Functional Wings

In 1937 the first of what would come to be known as functional wings were created when five Patrol Wings were established to exercise command of the Navy's then existing non-ship based patrol squadrons. From that time to the present, land based aircraft wings have been established as a means of commanding aircraft squadrons functioning in various combat or support roles. Functional Wings today are made up of squadrons of land based aircraft and may be made up of squadrons of a single type of aircraft or of squadrons of different types of aircraft depending on what is needed to carry out the function of the wing. There are currently thirteen wings falling under the command of the Naval Air Force Reserve; the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft or Weapons divisions; U.S. Strategic Command; Patrol and Reconnaissance Group; or the Naval Air Training Command fulfilling various functions.

There are three U.S Navy Reserve Wings under the command of the Commander, Naval Air Force Reserve. Tactical Support Wing provides 100% of the Navy's dedicated "Aggressor" squadrons and it provides one Expeditionary Electronic Attack (VAQ) squadron. Fleet Logistics Support Wing provides 100% of the Navy's "Navy Unique Fleet Essential Airlift" (NUFEA) aircraft providing worldwide logistics support to operating forces. Maritime Support Wing maintains two Patrol (VP) squadrons and one expeditionary Helicopter Maritime Strike (HSM) squadron for tasking as required.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Aircraft !! Lineage !! Colspan=2|Squadrons / Stations !! Tail Code

|align=left|Tactical Support Wing (TSW)|| 80px|center||align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|F/A-18E, F F-5F, N F-16C, D EA-18G||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|CVWR-20: 1 Apr 1970-1 Apr 2007 TSW: 1 Apr 2007–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (1) VFC Sqdn; F/A-18 (1) VFC Sqdn; F-16 (1) VFC Sqdn; F-5 (1) VFC Sqdn; F-5 (1) Exped VAQ Sqdn||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX. NAS Oceana, VA. NAS Fallon, NV. NAS Key West, FL. NAS JRB New Orleans, LA. NAS Whidbey Island, WA.||AF

|align=left|Fleet Logistics Support Wing (FLSW) || 85px|center||align=left |C-40A C-130T KC-130T C-37A C-37B||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Reserve Tactical Support Wing: 1974-1983 FLSW: 1983-present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (1) ETD; C-37A (2) VR Sqdns; C-37B, C-130 (2) VR Sqdns; C-40, C-130 (1) VR Sqdn; C-130 (1) VR Sqdn; C-130 (1) VR Sqdn; C-130 (1) VR Sqdn; C-40 (1) VR Sqdn; C-40 (1) VR Sqdn; C-40 (1) VR Sqdn; C-40 (1) VR Sqdn; C-40||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX. JB Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI. JB Andrews, MD. NAS Jacksonville, FL. NBVC Point Mugu, CA. JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ. NAS JRB New Orleans, LA. NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX. MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI. NAS Oceana, VA. NAS North Island, CA. NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

|align=left|Maritime Support Wing (MSW)|| 80px|center||align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|P-8A MH-60R||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|MSW: 31 July 2015 – present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (1) VP Sqdn (1) VP Sqdn (1) Exped HSM Sqdn||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS North Island, CA. NAS Whidbey Island, WA. NAS Jacksonville, FL. NAS Jacksonville, FL.||

Naval Test Wings Atlantic (NTWL) and Pacific (NTWP) are Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) wings. NTWL is the operational component of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, it is responsible for DT&E of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and it operates the United States Naval Test Pilot School. NTWP is the operational component of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, it is responsible for DT&E of Navy and Marine Corps airborne systems and weapons. Note: Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) of USN and USMC aircraft and airborne weapons is conducted by the U.S. Navy Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Aviation Warfare Division, not by NTWL or NTWP.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Aircraft !! Lineage !! Colspan=2|Squadrons / Stations

|align=left|Naval Test Wing Atlantic (NTWL)|| 80px|center||align=left |Various ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NTWL: 1995–present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff USNTPS (4) DT&E Sqdns ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NAS Patuxent River, MD. NAS Patuxent River, MD. NAS Patuxent River, MD.

|align=left|Naval Test Wing Pacific (NTWP)|| 80px|center||align=left |Various ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NTWP: 8 May 1995 – present||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|Wing Commander & staff (1) DT&E Sqdn (1) DT&E/Range support Sqdn ||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|NBVC Point Mugu, CA. NAWS China Lake, CA. NBVC Point Mugu, CA.

Strategic Communications Wing ONE reports administratively to Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific. Operationally it is designated United States Strategic Command Task Force 124 and operates airborne command and control aircraft for the relay of strategic communications to the nation's Intercontinental ballistic missile and Submarine-launched ballistic missile forces.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Aircraft !! Lineage !! Squadrons / Station

|STRATCOMWING ONE || 200px|center||align=left |E-6B||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|STRATCOMWING ONE: 1 May 1992 – present ||align=left|The wing consists of two operational Fleet Air Reconnaissance (VQ) squadrons and one Fleet Replacement Squadron all based at Tinker AFB, OK. Permanent detachment sites are maintained at Travis AFB, CA., Offutt AFB, NE. and NAS Patuxent River, MD.

Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings TEN and ELEVEN report to Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group who in turn reports to Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic. The P-8A/MQ-4C Fleet Replacement Squadron also reports directly to Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Group.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Aircraft !! Lineage!! Squadrons / Station

|PATRECONWING TEN || 230px|center||align=left |P-8A||align=left|PATWING TEN(2nd): 1 Jun 1981-1 Jun 1999 PATRECONWING TEN: 1 Jun 1999–present ||align=left|The wing consists of six Patrol (VP) squadrons and one Unmanned Patrol (VUP) squadron. The wing and its squadrons are all based at NAS Whidbey Island, WA.

|PATRECONWING ELEVEN || 75px|center||align=left |P-8A MQ-4C||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left| PATWING ELEVEN(1st): 15 Aug 1942-1 Nov 1942 FAW ELEVEN: 1 Nov 1942-30 Jun 1973 PATWING ELEVEN(2nd): 30 Jun 1973-26 Mar 1999 PATRECONWING ELEVEN: 26 Mar 1999–present ||align=left|The wing consists of six Patrol (VP) squadrons, one Special Projects Patrol (VPU) squadron and one Unmanned Patrol (VUP) squadron. The wing and its squadrons are all based at NAS Jacksonville, FL.

Training Air Wings fall under the command of the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) who is the Commander, Naval Air Training Command. They train Student Naval Aviators (SNA) of the U. S. Navy, U. S. Marine Corps and U. S. Coast Guard, Student Naval Flight Officers (SNFO) and Air Vehicle Pilots (AVP) of the U. S. Navy and student Unmanned Aircraft System Officers (UASO) of the U. S. Marine Corps. They also provide training for foreign military student aviators under the Foreign Military Sales program.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Aircraft !! Lineage !! Squadrons / Station !! Tail Code

|TRAWING ONE||85px|center||align=left |T-45C||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|1 Aug 1971–present||align=left |Two SNA advanced jet training squadrons based at NAS Meridian, MS. ||A

|TRAWING TWO||85px|center||align=left |T-45C||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left|1 Aug 1971–present||align=left |Two SNA primary training squadrons and two SNA advanced multi-engine training squadrons based at NAS Corpus Christi, TX. || G

|TRAWING FIVE||85px|center||style="white-space: nowrap;" align=left |T-6B TH-73A||align=left|9 Jan 1972–present CVLGs and CVEGs consisted of about thirty aircraft, initially fighters, dive bombers and torpedo bombers but by the last year of the war they consisted of a single fighting (VF) and a single torpedo bomber (VT) squadron.

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!colspan=1| Group !! Lineage ||NK

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-15||70px|center|| align=left|CVG-15(3rd): 5 Apr 1951-20 Dec 1963 CVW-15: 20 Dec 1953-31 Mar 1995|| align=left|Tail code NL is now used by land based "expeditionary" VAQ squadrons of Electronic Attack Wing Pacific.||NL

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-16||70px|center||align=left|CVG-16(2nd): 1 Sep 1960-20 Dec 1963 CVW-16: 20 Dec 1963-30 Jun 1970||align=left| ||AH

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-19||65px|center||align=left|CVG-19(1st): 1 Aug 1943-15 Nov 1946 CVAG-19: 15 Nov 1946-1 Sep 1948 CVG-19(2nd): 1 Sep 1948-20 Dec 1963 CVW-19: 20 Dec 1963-30 June 1977||align=left| ||NM

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-21||80px|center||align=left|CVG-21(2nd): 1 Jul 1955-20 Dec-1963 CVW-21: 20 Dec 1963-12 Dec 1975|| align=left| ||AK

| style="text-align:center;" |CVW-10 (2nd)||95px|center||align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|CVW-10(2nd): 7 Nov 1986-1 Jun 1988|| align=left|Planned for assignment to but did not deploy before it was disestablished only a year and a half later.||NM

: Tail codes with a first letter "A" denote Atlantic Fleet airwings, while "N" denotes Pacific Fleet airwings.

Air Task Groups (ATG) and Antisubmarine Carrier Air Groups (CVSG) 1951-1975

First in the 1950s and then in the 1960s two different unique types of Air Groups were formed or established. Beginning in 1951 temporary Air Task Groups (ATG) were formed to address a shortage of Carrier Air Groups, and beginning in 1960 specialized Carrier Air Groups were established as Antisubmarine Carrier Air Groups (CVSG) to operate from WWII Essex class aircraft carriers which were newly converted to serve as specialized Antisubmarine Aircraft Carriers (CVS).

Air Task Groups October 1951 to 19 January 1959

Two "Air Task Groups" (ATG) were formed in 1951 to address a shortage of Carrier Air Groups (CVG)s needed for Korean War operations. The number of CVGs was statutorily limited but the Navy needed more of them, the solution was to form two "temporary task groups" by reassigning squadrons from existing CVGs and using them to form an ATG. This reduced the number of squadrons in those CVGs from the then typical five total VF/VA squadrons to four total VF/VA squadrons but it gave the Navy two more "CVGs". They were CVGs in every respect but in name but as temporary task groups they were neither formerly established or disestablished, instead they were "formed" and "disbanded." Though the two ATGs were initially created in response to the Korean War they outlasted the war operating until the end of the decade and they were joined after the war in 1955 by six more ATGs.

Air Task Groups (ATG). Two ATGs were formed in 1951 and six more in 1955. They were all disbanded by 1959.

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! Group !! Insignia !! Lineage!! Notes !! Tail Code

| align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|CVSGR-70|| ||align=left style="white-space: nowrap;"|CVSGR-70: 1 May 1970-30 Jun 1976||align=left| || AW

| align=left|CVSGR-80|| ||style="white-space: nowrap;"|CVSGR-80: 1 May 1970-30 Jul 1976||align=left|Tail Code was adopted by Helicopter Wing Reserve and is in use today by the sole USNR helicopter squadron.|| NW

Disestablished functional and type wings 1937 to present

The U.S. Navy has operated wings other than carrier air groups/carrier air wings since 1 October 1937 when it established five "Patrol Wings". These wings have been established, disestablished or re-designated as the Navy has operated different aircraft through the years since then. The tables below list the Navy's wings other than carrier air groups/carrier air wings which have been disestablished, they also include previously used or no longer used designations of disestablished or currently active wings. For example, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing FIVE was established in October 1937 as Patrol Wing 5, it was re-designated Fleet Air Wing 5 in November 1942, re-designated back to Patrol Wing FIVE in 1973 and finally redesignated to its last designation of Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing FIVE in 1999. It was disestablished in 2009. Patrol Wing 5, Fleet Air Wing 5 and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing FIVE are not three disestablished wings, they are three designations used during the existence of a single wing which was established in October 1937 and disestablished in 2009. Similarly the currently active Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Atlantic Fleet (HSMWINGLANT) was previously designated Helicopter Anti-Submarine (Light) Wing Atlantic Fleet (HSLWINGLANT), before that it was designated Helicopter Anti-Submarine (Light) Wing ONE (HSLWING ONE) and before that it was designated Helicopter Sea Control Wing THREE (HELSEACONWING THREE). HELSEACONWING THREE, HSLWING ONE and HSLWINGLANT are not three separate disestablished wings as the wing still exists as HSMWINGLANT; they are former designations of the currently active wing which are no longer used.

Fleet Airship Wings 1942 to 1961

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Fleet Airship Wings (FASW) were established to operate the airship force that the Navy created in WWII. The Navy operated airships prior to the war but individual airships were assigned to airship stations; the airship force was not organized into squadrons, groups and wings until WWII. Note: the parenthetical (1st) and (2nd) appended to the two FASW 1 entries are not a part of either wing's designation. They are added to indicate that the FASW 1 designation was used to designate two separate unrelated wings, the first was the WWII wing and the second was created after the war to operate the Navy's postwar lighter-than-air fleet.

WWII Atlantic Fleet Airship Groups and Wings. On 2 January 1942 the Atlantic Fleet established Airship Patrol Group 1 at NAS Lakehurst, NJ. to serve as the administrative command for airship squadrons operating along the east coast of the United States. That group would eventually be designated Fleet Airship Wing ONE and the Atlantic Fleet would establish three more Fleet Airship Wings.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||style="white-space: nowrap;|HQ (2) VW sqdns (1) VW sqdn||style="white-space: nowrap;|NAS Argentia, Newfoundland NAS Patuxent River, MD NAS Argentia, Newfoundland||Disestablished by 26 Aug 1965 when the Atlantic Barrier ceased operations.

|align=center |AEWWINGPAC (First use)|| ||AEWWINGPAC: 10 Jan 1956-1 Feb 1960||HQ (3) VW sqdns||All located at NAS Barbers Point, HI||Disestablished 1 Feb 1960 when the wing and its sqdns were merged into a single sqdn "AEW Barrier Squadron Pacific" (AEWBARRONPAC)

Training Air Wings 1971 to 1992

Prior to the establishment of Training Air Wings, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard flight training was conducted by Training Squadrons organized under the Flag Officers "Chief of Naval Air Basic Training" and "Chief of Naval Air Advanced Training" which were both subordinate to the "Chief of Naval Air Training". In 1971 and 1972 Eight Training Air Wings were established, each under the command of a Captain who reported directly to the Chief of Naval Air Training eliminating the positions of Chief of Naval Air Basic Training and Chief of Naval Air Advanced Training. When first established included in the TRAWINGs were the Naval Air Stations from which they operated as well as the Training Squadrons (VT) and (HT). In the 1990s the Navy underwent a reorganization which moved command of shore facilities into chains of command separate from operating forces, that reorganization extended into the Naval Air Training Command and command of the Naval Air Stations from which the TRAWINGs operated was moved into a separate chain of command leaving the TRAWINGS in command of only the training squadrons.

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!Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage !! Station / Squadrons !! Notes !! Tail Code

|style="white-space: nowrap; |TRAWING THREE||150px|center||align=left style="white-space: nowrap; |TAW-3: 1 Oct 1971-31 Aug 1992||C

|TRAWING SEVEN|| ||style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:left;" |TAW-7: 1 Feb 1972-1 Oct 1976||2S

|TRAWING EIGHT|| ||style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:left;" |TAW-8: 1972-1974 Subordinate squadron was relocated to NAS Pensacola and realigned under TRAWING SIX.||

Patrol, Fleet Air, and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 1937 to present

In 1937 the Navy's first wings were created when it established five "Patrol Wings" consisting of squadrons of land based or amphibious patrol aircraft.

There have been twenty-five Patrol Wings/Fleet Air Wings/Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings since the first five Patrol Wings were established in 1937, two of those twenty-five still exist today. Three of those twenty-five were USNR wings, none of which exist today.

The tables in this section list disestablished wings as well as former no longer used designations of the two current Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings. Note: the parenthetical (1st) and (2nd) appended to some wing designations below are not a part of the wing's designation. They are added to indicate that the designation was used more than one time during the history of U.S. Naval Aviation and to specify which use of the designation is indicated. There is not necessarily any connection between Fleet Air Wings and/or Patrol Wings which shared the same designation.

Patrol Wings 1937 to 1942

The Navy's first five Patrol Wings were established on 1 Oct 1937. Three more were established in the 12 months prior to the U.S. entry in WWII and four more in the first 11 months of the war.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage and three more after the war, the last in 1965.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||NAS Barbers Point, HI

|align=center|PATWING FIVE (2nd)|| ||PATWING-5(1st): 1 Oct 1937-1 Nov 1942 FAW-5: 1 Nov 1942-30 Jun 1973 PATWING-5(2nd): 30 Jun 1973-26 Mar 1999 PATRECONWING-5: 26 Mar 1999-2009||NAS Brunswick, ME

|align=center|PATWING ELEVEN (2nd)||PATWING-11|85px|center||PATWING-11(1st): 15 Aug 1942-1 Nov 1942 FAW-11: 1 Nov 1942-30 Jun 1973 PATWING-11(2nd): 30 Jun 1973-26 Mar 1999 PATRECONWING-11: 26 Mar 1999-present||NAS Jacksonville, FL

|align=center|PATWING TEN (2nd)||85px|center||PATWING-10(2nd): 1 Jun 1981-1 Jun 1999 PATRECONWING-10: 1 Jun 1999-present||NAS Moffett Field, CA Moved on 1 July 1994 to NAS Whidbey Is, WA

Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 1999 and later

In 1999 there were four Patrol Wings still in existence and on that date they were redesignated Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings. Four years later in 2003 a fifth Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing was established and designated Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing TWO.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI When disestablished the wing's remaining squadrons were realigned to PATRECONWING TEN

Navy Reserve Fleet Air and Patrol Wings 1970-2007

In 1970 the USNR created a wing structure with the establishment of two Fleet Air Reserve Wings (FARW), two Reserve Carrier Air Wings (CVWR) and two Reserve Anti-Submarine Carrier Air Groups (CVSGR). The CVWRs and CVSGRs are detailed in the "Other Functional Wings and Type Wings" section at the end of the article.

Naval Air Reserve Fleet Air Reserve Wings 1970 to 1973

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||All USNR VP sqdns||Single PATWING to control the four USNR VP Squadrons remaining after disestablishment of the majority of USNR squadrons.

Other Functional Wings and Type Wings 1951 to present

The tables in this section list disestablished wings as well as former no longer used designations of current Type Wings. They do not include Fleet Air Wings, Patrol Wings or Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings as they are included in the "Patrol, Fleet Air, and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings" tables above.

The Navy's first "type wings" were established in the 1950s to provide for the training and readiness of nuclear bomber (Heavy Attack - VAH) squadrons assigned to Carrier Air Groups. In 1967 and 1968 three more such wings were established for the training and readiness of squadrons of specialized aircraft equipped with the emerging technologies of airborne search radar (Carrier Airborne Early Warning - VAW) and electronic warfare (Tactical Electronic Warfare - VAQ). Beginning in 1970 the type wing concept was expanded in the Atlantic Fleet to include by 1973 all squadrons of Carrier Air Wing type aircraft. It was another two decades after that before the Pacific Fleet adopted a type wing organization.

Special Mission Wings 1951 to 1973

Carrier Air Groups when not deployed aboard their aircraft carriers were based at Naval Air Stations. From as early as WWII those air groups and the Naval Air Stations at which they were based, along with all the facilities and infrastructure to support them, all fell under the overall command of a Rear Admiral commanded "Fleet Air" command (Fleet Air West Coast, Fleet Air Norfolk, Fleet Air Seattle, etc). Fleet Air commands ensured Carrier Air Groups were equipped, trained, crewed and ready to deploy aboard their aircraft carriers and they managed the entire shore infrastructure necessary for doing so.

In the 1950s the Navy began attaching nuclear bomber squadrons (Heavy Attack Squadron – VAH) to deploying Carrier Air Groups. Because of the specialized nature of the nuclear bombing mission and its unique training and readiness needs, "Heavy Attack Wings" were established under Fleet Air commands to provide the specialized training and upkeep of the aircraft required for the safe and effective conduct of this critical mission. These Heavy Attack Wings were not deployable wings, instead they provided combat ready VAH squadrons to deploying Carrier Air Groups. At the same time, Carrier Airborne Early Warning (VAW) squadrons 11 and 12 were providing detachments of aircraft equipped with the emerging technologies of airborne search radar and electronic warfare systems to deploying Carrier Air Groups, and in 1959 a third VAW squadron (VAW-13) split out of VAW-11 to concentrate on electronic warfare. By 1967 VAW-11 and VAW-12 had grown so large that they were elevated to wing status and designated Carrier Airborne Early Warning Wings ELEVEN and TWELVE and their detachments were established as squadrons. In 1968 Tactical Electronic Warfare Wing THIRTEEN was established to manage the training and readiness of Tactical Electronic Warfare (VAQ) squadrons which were being established.

These "special mission" Heavy Attack, Carrier Airborne Early Warning, and Electronic Warfare wings were non-deploying "force providers" which ensured their squadrons were ready and capable of executing their unique roles when attached to a Carrier Air Group (Carrier Air Wing after December 1963) for deployment making them the first of what are now called "type wings."

Naval Air Force Atlantic special mission wings 1951 to 1970

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage RECONATKWING-1:Aug 1964-1 Jan 1980||VAH squadrons||Provided VAH squadrons to Carrier Air Groups.

|RVAH squadrons ||Provided RVAH squadrons to Carrier Air Wings.

|align=center |CAEWWING TWELVE||150px|center ||style="white-space: nowrap; |CAEWWING-12: 1 Apr 1967-1 Sep 1993 AEWWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-23 Sep 2005||VAW squadrons||Established when VAW-12 was elevated to wing status and its detachments were established as separate squadrons.

Naval Air Force Pacific special mission wings 1956 to 1973

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||VAH squadrons||Provided VAH squadrons to Carrier Air Groups. Squadrons realigned under Fleet Air Whidbey after disestablishment.

|align=center |CAEWWING ELEVEN|| ||style="white-space: nowrap; |CAEWWING-11: 20 Apr 1967-30 Jun 1973||VAW squadrons||align=left|Established when VAW-11 was elevated to wing status and its detachments were established as separate squadrons. Squadrons realigned under Fleet Air Miramar after disestablishment.

|align=center |VAQWING THIRTEEN|| ||VAQWING-13: 1 Sep 1968-1 Jul 1972||VAQ squadrons||Established at NAS Alameda to oversee administrative, operations and maintenance support for the new Tactical Electronic Warfare (VAQ) squadrons Moved to NAS Whidbey Island with the decision to base the new EA-6B Prowler squadrons at NASWI. Squadrons realigned under Fleet Air Whidbey after disestablishment.

Functional and Type Wings 1970 to 1993

Between 1970 and 1974 both Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet and Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet underwent reorganizations which replaced Fleet Air commands with wings. Though both fleets each ended up with a wing structure, they went about their reorganizations differently and each ended up with different structures. Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet simply redesignated Flag Officer commanded Fleet Air commands as functional wings essentially leaving the Fleet Air structure in place with a simple name change to wings while Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet created a two tiered wing structure consisting of Flag Officer commanded functional wings with subordinate type wings commanded by Captains. The Functional Wing Commanders reported to the Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet, commanded the former Fleet Air command Naval Air Stations and shore infrastructure and oversaw their subordinate Captain commanded type wings which were directly responsible for the aircraft squadrons.

Naval Air Force Pacific Functional Wings 1973 to 1993. Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet's reorganization began on 30 June 1973 when its single remaining special mission wing (CAEWWING 11) and all but five of its Fleet Air commands were disestablished. These wings continued operating as they had operated when they were Fleet Air commands with responsibility for their assigned Naval Air Stations and aircraft squadrons. They also retained direct control of the Fleet Replacement Squadrons for their assigned aircraft which had been attached to Readiness Carrier Air Wing TWELVE (RCVW-12) or to Readiness Carrier Antisubmarine Group FIFTY ONE (RCVSG-51) both of which had been disestablished on 30 June 1970. Of the five wings only Patrol Wings, Pacific had subordinate wings which were Patrol Wings ONE and TWO both of them having been in existence since 1937.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage!! Composition !! Notes

|align=center style="white-space: nowrap;|FITAEWWINGPAC||90px|center||FITAEWWINGPAC: 1 Jul 1973-30 Sep 1993||VF squadrons VAW squadrons NAS Miramar||Fleet Air Miramar renamed Fighter AEW Wing, Pacific on 1 July 1973. That Captain commanded type wing still exists||VA squadrons NAS Lemoore NAS Fallon ||Rowspan="2" |Fleet Air Lemoore renamed LATWINGPAC on 1 Jul 1973.

|75px|center||VFA squadrons NAS Lemoore NAS Fallon

|align=center |MATVAQWINGPAC||75px|center||MATVAQWINGPAC: 1 Jul 1973-31 Jan 1993

Naval Air Force Atlantic Functional Wings 1974 to 1993. On 1 July 1974 Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet completed the replacement of its Fleet Air commands by realigning three existing Flag Officer commands redesignating them as functional wings which assumed command of Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Stations and of eight type wings which had been established between 1970 and 1973 in advance of the Flag Officer functional wings. A fourth functional wing was established twelve years later in 1986.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage!! Composition !! Notes

|align=center style=white-space: nowrap;|TACWINGSLANT FITMATAEWWINGSLANT TACWINGSLANT|| 90px||style=white-space: nowrap;|TACWINGSLANT: 1 Jul 1974-1 Oct 1986 FITMATAEWWINGSLANT: 1 Oct 1986-27 Apr 1989 TACWINGSLANT: 27 Apr 1989-30 Sep 1992||style=white-space: nowrap;|RECONATKWING ONE CAEWWING TWELVE LATWING ONE FITWING ONE MATWING ONE NAS Oceana NAS Key West NAS Norfolk||

|align=center |HELTACWING ONE||150px|center||HELTACWING-1: 1 Oct 1982-1 Sep 1993 HELTACWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-1 Apr 2005 HSCWINGLANT: 1 Apr 2005-present||Helicopter logistics, mine countermeasures and utility squadrons||Reported directly to CNAL until 1 Oct 1986 when it was realigned under HELWINGSLANT

Type Wings 1993 to 2009

In 1993 both Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet and Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet underwent major reorganization as part of a larger Navy reorganization that began moving command of the shore establishment away from the operating forces. All Flag Officer commanded Functional Wings were disestablished and command of Naval Air Stations and other shore based infrastructure was moved to Flag Officer commands in a chain of command separate from that of aircraft wings. Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet established type wings which mirrored those of Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet and all type wing commanders reported directly to either the Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific Fleet or Commander, Naval Air force Atlantic Fleet.

Naval Air Force Atlantic and Naval Air Force Pacific wings 1993 to 2009. A uniform type wing structure was created across both fleets with wings designated AEWWINGLANT & AEWWINGPAC, HSWINGLANT & HSWINGPAC, FITWINGLANT & FITWINGPAC etc.... The exception to this balanced organization was Electronic Combat Wing, Pacific (VAQWINGPAC) which had no Atlantic Fleet counterpart as there had never been an Electronic Warfare Wing in the Atlantic Fleet as MATVAQWINGPAC had provided VAQ squadrons to both Pacific and Atlantic Fleet Carrier Air Wings.

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||VAW squadrons VRC squadron ||On disestablishment squadrons were realigned to AEWWINGPAC which was then redesignated ACCLOGWING.

|align=center style="white-space: nowrap;|AEWWINGPAC (2nd)||150px|center||AEWWINGPAC(2nd): 1 Aug 1993-23 Sep 2005 ACCLOGWING: 23 Sep 2005–present||VAW squadrons VRC squadron||Established to receive the disestablishing FITAEWWINGPAC's Airborne Early Warning (VAW) squadrons and ASWWINGPAC's Logistics Support (VRC) squadron.||VF squadrons||Upon disestablishment remaining F-14 Tomcat squadrons realigned under STRKFITWINGLANT and eventually transitioned to the F/A-18F Super Hornet and were redesignated Strike Fighter (VFA) squadrons.

|align=center |FITWINGPAC||150px|center||FITWINGPAC: 1 Aug 1993-17 Dec 1996||VF squadrons|| Established to receive the disestablishing FITAEWWINGPAC's Fighter (VF) squadrons.||VA squadrons|||Disestablished with the retirement of the A-6 Intruder.

|align=center |ATKWINGPAC||150px|center||ATKWINGPAC: 1 Feb 1993-30 Apr 1997

|align=center |*STRKFITWINGLANT||150px|center||LATWING-1: 1 Jun 1970-1 Sep 1993 SEASTRKWING-1: May 1987-1 Sep 1993 SEACONWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-30 Jan 2009

|align=center |HSWINGLANT||150px|center||HSWING-1: 1 Apr 1973-1 Sep 1993

|align=center |HSLWINGPAC||150px|center||HSLWINGPAC: 5 May 1993-1 Nov 2004 HSMWINGPAC: 1 Nov 2004–present||HSL squadrons||Established to receive Helicopter Anti-Submarine (Light) (HSL) squadrons from the disestablishing ASWWINGPAC.

|align=center |HELTACWINGLANT||150px|center||HELTACWING-1: 1 Oct 1982-1 Sep 1993 HELTACWINGLANT: 1 Sep 1993-1 Apr 2005 HSCWINGLANT: 1 Apr 2005–present||HC squadrons HM squadrons||Redesignated HSCWINGLANT with the redesignation of Helicopter Combat Support (HC) squadrons to Helicopter Sea Combat (HSC) squadrons.

|align=center |HELTACWINGPAC||150px|center||HELTACWINGPAC: 1 Jul 1993-1 Apr 2005 HSCWINGPAC: 1 Apr 2005–present||HC squadrons HM squadrons||Established to receive Helicopter Mine Countermeasures (HM) and Helicopter Combat Support (HC) squadrons from the disestablishing ASWWINGPAC.

*VAQWINGPAC, STRKFITWINGLANT and STRKFITWINGPAC are not disestablished wings, nor are they former designations of currently active wings. They are included in this table to present a complete picture of the type wing structure as it existed as a result of the 1993 reorganization.

In 1997 the last of ATKWINGLANT & PAC's A-6s were retired and between 2004 and 2009 FITWINGLANT & PAC's F-14s, SEACONWINGLANT & PAC's S-3s and HSWINGLANT & PAC's SH-60Fs and HH-60Hs were retired or were in the final stages of being replaced with new aircraft resulting in the disestablishment of those eight wings; also, AEWWINGs LANT & PAC were consolidated into a single wing and HSLWINGs LANT & PAC and HELTACWINGs LANT & PAC were redesignated to reflect receipt of their new aircraft resulting in the current type wing structure which is listed in the current air wings section at the top of the article.

Navy Reserve Wings 1970-2007

In 1970 the USNR created a wing structure with the establishment of two Reserve Carrier Air Wings (CVWR), two Reserve Anti-Submarine Carrier Air Groups (CVSGR) and two Fleet Air Reserve Wings (detailed in the Fleet Air Wings section above). All of its Carrier Air Wing type squadrons were attached to a CVWR or CVSGR. CVWRs and CVSGRs were capable of embarking aboard an aircraft carrier for training but their function was to ensure their squadrons were manned, trained and equipped for operational employment if necessary; the same function as that of the active component type wings.

Naval Air Reserve Carrier Air Wings and Antisubmarine Carrier Air Groups

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! Wing !! Insignia !! Lineage||style="white-space: nowrap;"|VR sqdns VC sqdns || ||

|align=center |HELWINGRES||150px|center||style="white-space: nowrap;"|HELWINGRES: Jun 1975-31 May 2007 ||style="white-space: nowrap;"| HS sqdns HSL sqdns HC sqdns HAL sqdns HCS sqnds HM sqdns || When disestablished the remaining three sqdns realigned under active component wings but continued to display tail code NW.||align=center|NW

Notes

References

Roy A. Grossnick (ed.), United States Naval Aviation 1910–1995, [https://web.archive.org/web/20000914072238/http://history.navy.mil/download/history/prelim.pdf]

Current Navy Air Wings

Current Carrier Air Wings

Current Type Wings

Current Functional Wings

Air Task Groups (ATG) and Antisubmarine Carrier Air Groups (CVSG) 1951-1975

Air Task Groups October 1951 to 19 January 1959

Disestablished functional and type wings 1937 to present

Fleet Airship Wings 1942 to 1961

Training Air Wings 1971 to 1992

Patrol, Fleet Air, and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 1937 to present

Patrol Wings 1937 to 1942

Patrol and Reconnaissance Wings 1999 and later

Navy Reserve Fleet Air and Patrol Wings 1970-2007

Other Functional Wings and Type Wings 1951 to present

Special Mission Wings 1951 to 1973

Functional and Type Wings 1970 to 1993

Type Wings 1993 to 2009

Navy Reserve Wings 1970-2007

See also

Notes

References