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---Filter--- Ordered Laid down Commissioned Port Visit Deployment Trials Aircraft 2008-sep-10 Ordered Ordered from Huntington Ingalls (Newport News) 2009-nov-13 Laid down Laid down Newport News Shipbuilding at Newport News, Va. 2017-apr-08 Trials Trials 2017-jul-22 Commissioned Commissioned NS Norfolk at Norfolk Naval Station 2020-mar-29 NEWS Seahawks Completed First VERTREP on CVN-78 2020-sep-07 NEWS NS Norfolk Ford Seahawks Landing In-Port 2022-oct-04 Deployment Deployment NS Norfolk departed NS Norfolk for maiden deployment. leading CSG-12 with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8 embarked, for North Atlantic. 2022-nov-14 Port Visit Port Visit Stokes Bay called in at Portsmouth on maiden deployment. HSC-9 , HSM-70 and other members of CVW-8 embarked. 2023-jun-26 Deployment Deployment Split 2023-jul-31 Aircraft Aircraft flagship of CSG-12, with CVW-8 embarked. Hosted 1st British aircraft to land on, HMS Duncan Flight WIldcat HMA2, while in the Mediterannean Sea. 2023-aug-01 NEWS Central Mediterranean Wildcat is First Royal Navy Helicopter to Land on USS Gerald R Ford 2023-oct-10 Deployment Deployment diverted with CSG-12 and air wing, from planned visit to Marseilles to Eastern Mediterranean as contingency for Palestinian-Israeli crisis. 2026-feb-13 Deployment Deployment ordered from Caribbean to Middle East toward the end of its original deployment, with CVW-8 embarked, including MH-60 helicopters of HSC-9 and HSM-70 . 2026-feb-17 Deployment Deployment Gibraltar Strait passed Strait of Gibraltar, leading CSG-12 with escorts USS Winston S Churchill , USS Mahan and USS Bainbridge .
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NS Norfolk Ford Seahawks Landing In-Port 
Stokes Bay called in at Portsmouth on maiden deployment. HSC-9, HSM-70 and other members of CVW-8 embarked.
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