1948-Contin ued
VPW-1, had been established on 1 April 1948 with a
secondary mission of AEW, those squadrons were the
first to be organized specifically for the AEW mission
and the first to provide the fleet with AEW services
from carriers.
20 July
The Chief of Naval Operations directed that
the standard composition of Carrier Air Groups be
changed to three fighters and two attack squadrons,
thus adding one fighter squadron to each group. To
compensate for this increase, squadron aircraft com-
plements were slightly reduced.
22 July
Assembly and Repair Departments (A&R) at
Navy and Marine Corps air stations were renamed
Overhaul and Repair Departments (O&R.)
23 July
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air
approved a plan to develop the Jacksonville area as a
Fleet Aviation Center. The plan included reactivation
of Cecil Field, Fla., and Mayport, Fla., to help support
the air groups assigned to the Center, and the reloca-
tion of the Naval Air Advanced Training Command
based at NAS Jacksonville.
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29 July
The president approved the construction, in a
private shipyard, of a flush-deck 65,000-ton aircraft carri-
er, subsequently named
United States,
for which funds
had been provided in the Naval Appropriation Act 1949.
1 August
Because the National Security Act of 1947
had assigned most of its functions to other boards and
some duplication appeared to exist, the Aeronautical
Board was dissolved after over 30 years as an interser-
vice agency for cooperation in aviation.
17 August
The Chief of Naval Operations informed
the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of his intention
to assign antisubmarine warfare as a primary mission
to most of the patrol squadrons, and requested that
the Bureau institute a vigorous program to outfit patrol
planes in service with the necessary equipment.
28 August
The Caroline Mars, a JRM-2 flying boat,
landed at Chicago with 42 persons on board and a
14,000-pound payload, after a record nonstop flight
from Honolulu, Hawaii, of 4,748 miles in 24 hours, 12
minutes.
1 September
The system of group and squadron
designations, in effect since November 1946, was sim-
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