Naval aviation
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Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, either from warships that can embark aircraft or from coastal naval air stations. It often involves navalised aircraft, specifically
An F/A-18C Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk.
Mayfly was built in 1908 and was the first powered aircraft to be used in a naval capacity.
Lieutenant Charles Samson's historic takeoff from Hibernia in 1912.
Japanese Maurice Farman seaplane from Wakamiya
Henry C. Mustin (1874–1923)
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Henry Croskey Mustin was a pioneering naval aviator who undertook the task of establishing the first Naval Aeronautic Station on the site of the abandoned Navy Yard at Warrington, Florida, in 1914. He
Captain Henry C. Mustin
U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen skylarking aboard USS Essex, 1893. Midshipman Henry Mustin is in the foreground on the left.
The detachment of naval officers who established the Naval Aeronautic Station at Pensacola, Florida. Henry Mustin is fourth from right.
U.S. Navy aircraft over Veracruz, Mexico, in 1914.