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Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is the primary location for the film. See more at The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (more commonly known as "TopGun" is located here). The program was created in 1969 to teach advanced areal combat maneuvers dogfighting) to skilled Navy pilots. The USN SFTI ran until 1996, when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, located in Nevada.

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  • Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is the primary location for the film. See more at The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (more commonly known as "TopGun" is located here). The program was created in 1969 to teach advanced areal combat maneuvers dogfighting) to skilled Navy pilots. The USN SFTI ran until 1996, when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, located in Nevada.
  • Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) , formerly Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. It is located in Miramar, San Diego, California, about north of Downtown San Diego.
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  • Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) , formerly Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. It is located in Miramar, San Diego, California, about north of Downtown San Diego. The airfield is named Mitscher Field after Admiral M.A. Mitscher who was the commander of Task Force 58 during World War II. The air station is the former location Pacific Fleet fighter and Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft (F-4 Phantom II, F-14 Tomcat, E-2 Hawkeye) and is best known as the former location of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (NFWS), its TOPGUN training program and the movie of the same name. In 1996, NFWS was relocated to Naval Air Station Fallon in western Nevada and merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC). During the heyday of TOPGUN at NAS Miramar, the station was nicknamed "Fightertown USA".
  • Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is the primary location for the film. See more at The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (more commonly known as "TopGun" is located here). The program was created in 1969 to teach advanced areal combat maneuvers dogfighting) to skilled Navy pilots. The USN SFTI ran until 1996, when it was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, located in Nevada.
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