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I knew you had documentation. You always do, and it is always this thorough. Which is why I knew I was missing something important! Thank you for sharing. I downloaded it. It looks like the use of non-skid has spread, and it now covers "nearly everything" these days. That said, there's also black non-skid which gets used a good deal. (The very first time I paid attention to deck coating was a visit to the JFK CV-67. It had black non-skid on the flight deck. I was still very novice, and then claimed all non-skid was black...I had seen it for myself. Then, I learned there was also gray, and the next ship I visited, sure enough, the non-skid was gray. Sigh...) So, claiming any one uniform deck color now seems erroneous. Decks are a patchwork of 26008, 36076, black, etc. depending on what is coated with what. His project being the 1980s, I suspect the use of non-skid was a little less "drastic" then, so 26008 is "generally" correct. However, the ship's flight deck would definitely be 36076. Possibly other areas as well. If high accuracy is a goal, good photos will be necessary. This being a hobby, and subject to individual whim, one is free to imagine where non-skid might have been applied, and whether black or gray, and add it wherever one pleases, if not concerned with super accuracy.

I am now recalling a thread on the subject of non-skid many many years ago, where you posted with documentation that the black "stuff" was a coating that could be applied with little-to-no deck preparation, "in a hurry," while the gray "stuff" was more permanent, and required the deck be properly prepared and the mixture more laboriously applied. That was a major contributing factor to what got used when and where. Flight decks must have the gray stuff. But, if it was suddenly decided a walkway was wanted, it could be quickly created with the black stuff. To be considered when/if choosing to "freestyle" your model's deck layout.

Thank you a ton for this great info!!