NAS Fallon 2-2018

Naval Air Station Fallon is US Navy’s premier tactical air warfare center specializing in Air to Air and Air to ground training. Due to the vast size of the nearby ranges, 80% of all Navy munitions dropped in training is done in NAS Fallon. This is also the only Navy airbase that could house an entire Carrier airwing at one time for training.

Current Units base in NAS Fallon

• Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center ( NAWDC )
• Fighter Squadron composite 13 ( VFC-13) Fighting Saints
• Strike Fighter Wing Pacific Detachment ( SFWPD )
• Fleet Readiness Center West Detachment Fallon
• Naval Munitions Command West-Detachment Fallon
• Naval Aviation forecasting Component (NAFCOMP)
• Naval Criminal Investigative Service ( NCIS)
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal EOD Detachement

From our focus on Naval Aviation, we will be focusing on NAWDC and VFC-13

NAWDC

NAWDC took over the role from the earlier Naval Strike and Air warfare Center ( NSAWC ) in 2015.

Currently they provide Service to aircrews, squadrons and airwing support through flight training, acadamic instructional classes, and direct operational and intelligence support. This include the famous Topgun,  (SEAWOLF) rotary wing school, Electronic warfare school, Growler Weapon School HAVOC and Carrier Airborne Early Warning school. NAWDC houses 2870+ military personnel and about 250 civilian and contractors. The current fleet  for NAWDC houses 54 aircrafts which include Legacy Hornet F/A-18 A/B/C/D, Superhornet F/A-18 E/F, E-2C Hawkeye, MH-60S helicopter, F-16 A/B, F-5n and E/A-18G. For our visit we get to photograph the hotramp for NAWDC and End of runway shots on NAWDC aircraft doing their routine training.

NAWDC Aircraft on base

Bord #	Serial #	Aircraft Type
45	163950	F-18C
44	164033	F-18C
	164691	F-18C
30	164278	F-18C
30	162840	F-18A Desert
24	164277	F-18C Blue
23	164686	F-18C
27	164661	F-18C
40	163987	F-18C
115	166904	F-18E
100	163796	F-18F
111	166787	F-18E
105	165807	F-18F
106	165885	F-18F
500	168932	E/A-18G
502	168900	E/A-18G
600	164112	E-2C
601	164355	E-2C
61	920410	F-16A Blue Camo
05	920459	F-16B desert
56	900947	F-16A Blue Camo
52	920408	F-16A desert
53	900944	F-16A desert
04	920458	F-16B Blue splinter
72	167828	MH-60
71	167838	MH-60
	167865	MH-60

Hotramp Shots

NAWDC Flight line and End of Runway (EOR)

VFC-13 ” Fighting Saints”

VFC-13 provides Adversary training for Carrier Airwing, fighter and attack squadrons, USAF and other allied forces.

When we were on base , VFC-13 Fighting Saints did not fly , so we were only presented with Static and Hanger shots. VFC-13 flies the a mixed bag of 23 F-5E, F-5F and Ex-Swiss F-5N Tiger II painted in very colorful camouflage scheme that simulate our Adversary fighters. They wear Eastern bloc style Bord numbers with distinct variety of colorful adversary schemes of blue, gray, yellow splinter, black, brown camouflage. From this visit I have a list of jets by serial number that we photograph.

VFC-13 aircraft on base

Bord #	Serial	Camouflage type
02	761536	yellow splinter
04	761544	tiger camo
10	761534	white grey
07	761545	brown desert
06	761528	white grey
12	761568	white grey
13	761578	Black ( MIG28 )
14	761535	white grey ( grey nose)
20	761580	black F model

Tiger Camouflage scheme (76-1544)

White Grey Camouflage Scheme

Gloss Black ( Top Gun MIG-28 scheme)

Yellow Splinter Camouflage Scheme

Desert Brown Camouflage scheme

Other Navy Aircraft

Article by Dave Chng