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VRC-30 was originally established as Air Transport Squadron 5 (VR-5) on 24 June 1943 at Naval Air Station Seattle.The squadron was operated the Douglas R4D Skytrain, Douglas R5D Skymaster, Beechcraft SNB Expeditor, and the Noorduyn JA-1 Norseman in regular service to Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, San Francisco, the Aleutian Islands, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Point Barrow, Alaska.
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 40 (VRC-40), also known as the "Rawhides", is a United States Navy fleet logistics support squadron based at NS Norfolk. Commissioned in 1960, it is the last active fleet logistics squadrons in the Navy, since VRC-30 decommissioned in 8 December 2023.
Pages in category "Fleet logistics support squadrons of the United States Navy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... VRC-30; VRC-40; VRC-50
[2] At the same time, two C-2A Greyhounds from VRC-30 Detachment 5 were based at Naval Support Activity Bahrain providing logistical support to all four carriers on station, USS Kitty Hawk, USS Enterprise, USS Theodore Roosevelt, and USS Carl Vinson. The Providers from VRC-30's Detachment 5 were the only C-2A squadron in the region qualified ...
Several U.S. Navy "Fleet Logistics Support Squadrons" provided COD services aboard carriers since the World War II, including VR-5, VR-21, VR-22, VR-23, VR-24, VRC-30, VRC-40, and VRC-50. [ citation needed ] On 6 October 2012, a MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft from squadron VMM-165 landed and refueled on board USS Nimitz (CVN-68) .
The addition of the re-procured C-2A Greyhound brought the added responsibility of creating a new training program for the pilots and aircrew of Fleet Logistics Support Squadrons VRC-30 and VRC-40 which included the first ever C-2A night carrier qualifications. [3]
VR-62 provides Navy Unique Fleet Essential Airlift (NUFEA), a capability totally resident in the Naval Air Force Reserve, comprising 24 C-130T Hercules aircraft in five squadrons and 17 Boeing C-40A Clipper [3] aircraft in an additional six squadrons for responsive, flexible and rapidly deployable air logistics support to combat operations at sea and from the sea.
The squadron was established on 14 December 2018 at Naval Air Station North Island, California (USA), but did not gain any aircraft until 22 June 2020.It is equipped with the CMV-22B, a carrier onboard delivery variant of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey which will eventually replace the Grumman C-2 Greyhound.