Colourful CAG Birds - Let's see yours...

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Some truly fabulous stuff on this thread, but not convinced we have scratched the surface yet, must be more pictures out there?
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Some more to keep the topic alive:

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A few of mine from above.

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Can I say how delighted I am to see this thread resurrected, and Glenn that 'Mighty Shrikes' CAG is stunning, I am yet to catch that wonderful machine in sunlight, but your shot does it proud...

So three from me, taken this year including the cheeky Marine Corps KC-130J that passed through Lyneham, all in HD...

VAQ-129 'Vikings' EA-18G Growler at El Centro

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VFA-211 'Fightin Checkmates' F/A-18F Super Hornet at El Centro

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VMGR-352 'Raiders' KC-130J Hercules at Lyneham

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Some more noise...

VFA-131 'Wildcats' F/A-18C Hornet on the USS Eisenhower

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VFA-11 'Red Rippers' F/A-18F Super Hornet at NAS Oceana

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VFA-83 'Rampagers' F/A-18C Hornet on the USS Eisenhower

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Found a few to add , operational aircraft in this post and a few preserved in the following one........................
NAS Oceana
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NAS Lemoore

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NAS Meridian

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MCAS Cherry Point

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One taken at Andrews AFB and Luke AFB respectively

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And a few preserved...........................

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Not to the same excellent standard as many of the others here, but heres a few offerings from a few years back. I can't beleive it's three years since I last went West. Looks like a target for next year....... :sad:

Firstly some un- California style weather,

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Viscious dog on VX30s bird, which had to be the photo ship of course

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F14 on the in ramp at AMARC

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and another in the car park at Pensacola!

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S3 also at Pensacola, the one George Bush landed in aboard the Enterprise (I think) after Iraqi Freedom

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and a couple from Miramar show

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One more from Pensacola

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Just the 1 from me,taken at NAS Dallas 1992 Image

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A few not technically CAGs, just for interest...

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F/A-18C Hornet by Kenster79, on Flickr

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C-2 Greyhound COD by Kenster79, on Flickr

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IMG_5729 by Kenster79, on Flickr

I'd love to see more

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Not exactly a colourful CAG bird, this A-6E... The other Intruders of VA-115 wore grey markings. They were based at NAS Atsugi in 1994, but I took this photo at Misawa.

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A few from me. Sorry if some have already been posted and some are specials but perhaps not cag birds.

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There are some wonderful shots of colourful CAG birds on this thread :clap: However, there are also many which are not CAG aircraft, so maybe the thread should be re-titled "Colourful USN Birds".

For clarification; A CAG aircraft is always the first modex x00 (Double nutts) of a squadron, eg. aircarft coded 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 etc.

Aircraft with modex x01 (101, 201, 301 etc.) are the Squadron XO's aircraft.

So any USN aircraft in a special scheme or markings which doesn't carry a double nutts modex ISN'T a CAG bird!!

I almost forgot to add that CAG aircraft are also those drawn from Carrier Air Wings (CVW), so if a USN squadron which isn't part of a CVW has special marked aircraft, then none of these are CAG aircraft either.

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great theme ! too many to post.....

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