Syark Air Force (SAF) - 1/72 Witty Wings US Navy F/A 18E Superhornet VFA 31 Tomcatters Squadron











1/72 Witty Wings US Navy F/A 18E Superhornet VFA 31 Tomcatters Squadron

The completed Tomcatters Squadron Fighter Collection achieved this year after I got my new Superhornet from VFA 31 Squadron. VFA 31 started using F18 Superhornet in 2006 after the transitioned from F14D Tomcat. The most event that has been joined by VFA-31, along with CVW-8 and Theodore Roosevelt, participated in Joint Task Force Exercise 08-4 Operation Brimstone off the coast of North Carolina between July 21 and July 31, 2008. The British carrier HMS Ark Royal, the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima with associated units and the Brazilian Navy frigate Greenhalgh (F-46) and the French submarine Améthyste also participated in the event.

On 8 September 2008, VFA-31 and the rest of CVW-8 deployed on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt on a regularly scheduled deployment. On October 4, the Roosevelt Carrier Group arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, the first visit by an American aircraft carrier since 1967 and three days later the carrier left Cape Town. CVW-8 and CVN-71 supported Operation Enduring Freedom and flew more than 3,100 sorties and dropped more than 59,500 pounds of ordnance while providing Close Air Support for ISAF-forces in Afghanistan. On March 21, 2009 it was reported that USS Theodore Roosevelt was relieved by USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).

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