VC-5 made the first of its three deployments to Port Lyautey in February 1951.
AJ tankers were used to refuel John Glenn's Vought F8U-1P Crusader during the Project Bullet transcontinental speed record flight in July 1957;[REF] AJ-2s from VAH-6 on the West Coast and AJ-1s from VAH-11 on the East Coast.