On Friday February 1, 2019 a rare sundown had occurred at 1303 hours at the U.S. Navy’s East Coast Master Jet Base, Naval Air Station Oceana. This sundown had not come early because this was for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18C ‘Legacy’ Hornet and this event was over 40 years in the making. As of this […]
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U.S. Navy’s Legacy Hornets Retire With A Sundown Celebration
Posted by Mike Colaner on March 30th, 2019
Posted in Special Event, U.S. Navy, Warbird Fighters 
Tags: Boeibg - McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, U.S. Marine Corps Hornets, U.S. Navy Hornets 
Comments Off on U.S. Navy’s Legacy Hornets Retire With A Sundown CelebrationMarine Corps EA-6B Prowler Sunset and VMAQ-2 Deactivation
Posted by Shawn Byers on March 23rd, 2019
On Friday, March 8th, 2019, the United States Marine Corps said farewell to the venerable Grumman EA-6B Prowler and the last squadron to fly it, VMAQ-2, ‘The Death Jesters”. This was truly an end of two eras.
Posted in Museums, National Air and Space Museum, U.S. Marines Tags: "Easy 21", Disestablishment, EA-6B Prowler, Grumman, MCAS Cherry Point, National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, VMAQ-2, Washington Dulles International Airport Comments Off on Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler Sunset and VMAQ-2 DeactivationT-6/SNJ/Harvard Scrapbook
Posted by Ken Kula on March 17th, 2019
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan family encompasses dozens of variants and sub-variants. The initial prototype was known as the NA-16, which first flew in 1935. This aircraft was modified to answer a call for an advanced training aircraft for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1937. The BC (Basic Combat) and BT (Basic Trainer) […]
Posted in airshows, Trainers, warbirds Tags: Advanced Trainer, Basic Trainer, North American Aviation Comments Off on T-6/SNJ/Harvard ScrapbookWarbirds Over Wanaka – 1998
Posted by Ken Kula on March 10th, 2019
Twenty-plus years have flown by since my first and only visit (thus far) to New Zealand. My main purpose of the trip was to see the highly anticipated Polikarpov fighters, the I-153 and I-16 World War II era planes that the Alpine Fighter Collection had rebuilt in Russian factories during the mid-1990s. The show, during […]
Posted in airshows, Museums, Warbird Fighters, warbirds Tags: I-153, Polikarpov I-16, Warbirds, Warbirds Over Wanaka New Zealand 1998 Comments Off on Warbirds Over Wanaka – 1998