page_title: Naval Air Facility Washington
section_title: Post-Cold War
hierarchical_section_title: Naval Air Facility Washington / History / Post-Cold War
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Update I Orion aircraft of Patrol Squadron VP-68 Blackhawks, taxing toward the Naval Air Facility Washington, D.C. terminal after completing a training flight which set a new standard of aviation safety for the Naval Reserve by marking 100,000 mishap free flight hours. The squadron was commissioned in 1970 and compiled the safety record over the next 24 years, one flight at a time.
context_page_description: Naval Air Facility Washington or NAF Washington is a United States Naval Reserve installation located near Camp Springs, Maryland in the United States of America. The facility was established at Andrews Air Force Base in 1958. As part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure programme, it merged with Andrews Air Force Base in 2009, to create Joint Base Andrews-Naval Air Facility Washington.
context_section_description: At the start of 1993, NAF Washington D.C. Air Reservists continued to support naval activities with VMFA-321 flying the F/A-18 Hornet, VP-68 flying the P-3C Orion, VAQ-209 flying the EA-6B Prowler, Fleet Logistic Support Wing Detachment flying the C-20 Gulfstream and T-39 Sabreliner, VR-53 flying the C-130 Hercules and the NAF flying the UC-12B for the transportation of VIPs and light cargo.
  By October 2006, Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) Anacostia merged with NAF Washington. With this merger, NAF assumed the additional title of Naval District Washington Reserve Component Command. In September 2007, NOSC Adelphi in Maryland was disestablished and was merged with the reserve center at NAF Washington, creating the largest NOSC in the country.
caption: A US Navy Lockheed P-3C of VP-68 Blackhawks, taxing at NAF Washington during 1994.
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