VX-1 - Pioneers

Helicopters

Tail code JA, they test and evaluate the newest and most advanced technology in ASW, Electronic Warfare (EW), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), and Airborne Mine Counter-Measures (AMCM) mission areas.

As of 2012 their rotary wing aircraft includes the MH-60R and MH-60S Seahawk and the MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV.

In Memory of our three VX-1 shipmates who all perished in a SH-2F helicopter aircraft # 149765 on June 24th, 1977 https://www.forevermissed.com/lost-shipmates-vx1/

That was a sad day. I can picture the hangar deck covered with helo parts. M. Torres

News of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron ONE

First Ferry Flight for the COD CMV-22 Osprey, 16-Apr-20 : #FerryFlight The Osprey variant that will replace the C-2A Greyhound in the Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) mission completed its first cross-country flight from Bell factory in Amarillo, Texas to Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River in Maryland

VX-1 Completed MQ-8C Evaluation on USS Coronado, 06-Jul-18 : #evaluation USS Coronado (LCS-4) and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-1 completed the first comprehensive Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) for the MQ-8C Fire Scout

Locations

Years	Location	ICAO/FAA
1970/	NAS Patuxent River	KNHK
1943/70	NAS Key West	KNQX

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Years	Models
2006/	MQ-8A/B Fire Scout
1983/	S-70 H-60

VX-1 List of helicopters	Help Us

C/N	Version	Built	In this Org	In other Org
58-11	hss-1	1955	137855 : Sikorsky HSS-1, c/n 58-11, ff?; del USN as HSS-1 137855, 15Feb55; xfer NAS+
52	UH-2A		149750 : 1988 SH-2F type as VX-1 /JA
67	UH-2A		149765 : Aug76-Apr77 flown at Pax River by Laron Stoker XO of VX-1 with Butler Cre+ : SH-2F Helicopter /JA-31 was assigned to VX-1 at NAS Patuxent River, MD an+
61-183	hss-2		149913 : USN; conv SH-3H; Nov.79 as /JA-22 VX-1 at Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patux+
61-304	sh-3a		152111 : USN; VX-1 w/o 17mar69 : Helicopter went down of the coast of Key West Florida during night operati+
61-310	sh-3a		152116 : US Navy; 1988 SH-3H type VX-1./JA-24
185	UH-2B		152201 : flown as an SH-2F by Laron Stoker XO VX-1 Pax River with Creighton, Howdys+ : 1988 SH-2F type VX-1 /JA-30
70-372	sh-60b		161561 : US Navy; 1989 VX-1./JA-41; 1995 HSL-40./HK-411
70-387	sh-60b		162097 : USN; JA-42/VX-1 w/o 23feb85 ditched North of Bermuda
70-462	sh-60b		162977 : USN; VX-1, conv to YSH-60R; 2012 HSM-40 /HK-412
70-628	sh-60f		164070 : USN; VX-1
70-630	sh-60f		164072 JA-46 : pictured (pic1) operating from AUTEC, Andros Island	6046
70-1765	sh-60b		164462 JA-39 : Nova Scotia International Air Show
70-2265	hh-60h		165154 : USN; from SH-60F; JA-51/VX-1 w/o 26sep98
	mh-60s		166336 : USN; VX-1 /JA-336
70-2880	mh-60s		166338 : USN; 2008 VX-1 /JA-338; 2010 HSC-22 /AM-17
70-2893	mh-60r		166519 : USN; 2010 VX-1 /JA-519; 2017 CAG /519
70-2932	mh-60r		166521 : USN; VX-1
	mh-60s		167813 : USN; VX-1 /JA-813
	mh-60s		167831 : VX-1 JA-831 :

Air Test and Evaluation Squadron ONE

US Navy

1943 to present

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VX-1 List of helicopters