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| This is a very special TOPGUN TOP GUN MAVERICK'S (TOM CRUISE) G-1 FLIGHT SUIT VF-1 SQN PATCH, Large Size: 4 inch (H). As seen in the Movie "Top Gun" staring Tom Cruise, on the Left-Front of MAVERICK'S (Tom Cruise) USN Navy Flight Suit. The patch is new, with velcro backing, seal in poly bag.
Established on the 14th of October 1972 at NAS Miramar, at the same time as VF-2, the squadron received it's first F-14As on 1st July 1973. Squadron markings take the form of a stylised wolf's head, either red (for the CAG and boss bird) or low vis grey. The squadron made the first Tomcat cruise on USS Enterprise (CVN-65) from September 1974. The end of this cruise saw the Tomcat's conflict debut, as VF-1 and VF-2 flew air patrols over Saigon in April 1975 to cover the final evacuation of US personnel. VF-1 then changed from CVW-14 to CVW-2, entailing a move of carrier to the USS Ranger (CV-61) in September 1980. The squadron flew several successful cruises then shifted to USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) for a single cruise in 1984. In 1984 VF-1 achieved the impressive total of 22,000 hours of flying without accident. By 1986 VF-1 had returned to Ranger and was still with the carrier when she participated in Desert Storm in 1991. A plane from the squadron scored the F-14's only air to air kill of the war when NE-103 (BuNo.162603) shot down an Iraqi Mil Mi-8 Hip using an AIM-9 Sidewinder. With the decommissioning of Ranger in 1993 the squadron was left without a carrier assignment and so operated out of NAS Miramar. At one point the squadron was due to convert to the F-14D Super Tomcat, however, due to a lack of airframes and the Navy's decision to reduce the number of F-14 squadrons per carrier from two to one, VF-1 was disestablished on the 1st October 1993. TOPGUN was made famous in popular culture by the 1986 release of the motion picture Top Gun.
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