NAS Oceana News

National defense matters and economic development could be at odds in Virginia Beach.

Pilots and crewmembers of VFC-12 post flight two F/A-18 Hornets after returning from a mission in support of the Composite Training Unit Exercise with USS Harry S. Truman.

It is also known as Apollo Soucek Field, named after Lieutenant Apollo Soucek, who was a Navy Test Pilot and world record altitude holder in 1930, having flown a Curtiss "Hawk" biplane to an altitude of 43,166 feet.

With a thunderous roar, a Navy F/18 Hornet jet landed at the county airport Wednesday June 3 for a visit to the Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum.

On Wednesday morning it was rise and shine in Greensboro, North Carolina. Our destination for lunch was the garage and museum of Cecil Profitt.

Captain Craig W. Yager relieved Captain Thomas V. Halley Thursday as Commander, Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic , in a change of command ceremony at NAS Oceana.

The return of 6000 sailors to Hampton Roads after a seven-month deployment will be delayed slightly due to weather.

The Navy honored two of its best Thursday in Norfolk as the U.S. Fleet Forces Command announced the 2009 Fleet Sea and Shore Sailors of the Year.

A U.S. fighter pilot lost nearly 20 years ago in the Persian Gulf War will continue to be listed as missing in action, the Navy announced Tuesday, although the Pentagon no longer suspects that he was captured ...

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" Throughout their battle to keep the Navy from building an Outlying Landing Field in Gates County, Citizens Against OLF have had an ally in the form of Congressman G. K. Butterfield.

Capt. Markham K. Rich assumed command of Naval Air Station Oceana Friday, relieving Capt.

Sailors at NAS Oceana responded to a mock plane crash. It's part of the Navy's week-long exercise called Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield.

A plane captain from Electronic Attack Squadron 140 directs an EA-6B Prowler piloted by Capt.

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The Navy announced Wednesday that squadrons based at Naval Air Station Oceana and Naval Station Norfolk will conduct heavier than normal day and night flight operations, including Field Carrier Landing Practice ...

Boeing is stepping up its campaign to offer the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to Denmark, with two US Navy examples scheduled to visit Copenhagen in early February.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye, the new Democratic representative for the 2nd District, is calling on Congress to funnel some economic stimulus money into construction on military bases.

An F-18 military jet crashed in a San Diego neighborhood on Monday, sparking at least one house fire.