[citation needed] RVAW 110 was known as the rag outfit and was the training arm of the Airborne Early Warning Squadrons.

With over 200 officers and 800 enlisted personnel, VAW -12 was reorganized as an Air Wing, and on 1 April 1967, Admiral T.E.

Moore, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, commissioned Carrier Airborne Early Warning Wing Twelve with six operating squadrons.

The 15F8B Weapon System Trainer (WST) arrived in October 1984 and was accepted for training on 19 November 1984.

The firebird emblem is used in the films to denote the fictional VF-1 Navy flight squadron to which characters Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) belong.