Sources from Britain's Royal Air Force told Aero-News Thursday
that an RAF Sea King rescue helicopter, stranded 3000 feet up in
the Cairngorm Mountains since being abandoned during a rescue over
a week ago, was finally flown out of the hills Monday.
Six squadrons from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 will return to Naval
Station Norfolk and Naval Air Station Oceana March 9 and 10
following their six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The remainder of
CVW-8’s squadrons will return to their homebases of Naval Air
Station (NAS) Jacksonville, FL and NAS Whidbey Island, FL.
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