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Naval Air Station Patuxent River – VX-23 F-35

Naval Air Station Patuxent River – VX-23 F-35 poster art.

VX-23 Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (AIRTEVRON TWO THREE) The Salty Dogs” is a United States Navy air test and evaluation squadron based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. Using the tail code SD, the squadron operates multiple aircraft types of the United States Navy. Naval Air Station Patuxent River, also known as NAS Pax River, is a United States Naval Air Station located in St. Mary’s County, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent River. It is home to Headquarters, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, the Atlantic Test Range, and serves as a center for test and evaluation and systems acquisition relating to naval aviation. Commissioned on April 1, 1943 on land largely acquired through eminent domain, the air station grew rapidly in response to World War II and continued to evolve through the Cold War to the present. (See more below)

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