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The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks , Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship.
Grumman EA-6B Prowler BuNo. 158817/'NE' of VAQ-137, US Navy, on board the USS Ranger. Crashed and destroyed September 28, 1978: Night catapult launch off the USS Ranger on workups. Flew into the water about 7 miles from the carrier, after launch. Crashed into the Pacific Ocean 110 miles west of San Diego, California. Pilot and ECMO 2 killed on ...
U.S. Navy Grumman C-2A Greyhound, BuNo 155120, of VRC-50, out of NAS Atsugi, [46] crashed on takeoff from USS Ranger, in the Gulf of Tonkin. The aircraft stalled after catapult launch with a probable load shift of the cargo, reached an extreme nose-up attitude, went into a hammerhead stall and crashed off the carrier's port bow. 9 personnel ...
Gonzo Station was a U.S. Navy acronym for "Gulf of Oman Naval Zone of Operations" or "Gulf of Oman Northern Zone." [1] It was used to designate an area of carrier-based naval operations by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps in the Indian Ocean during the 1979–1981 Iranian Hostage Crisis and the "Tanker War" between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Four McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom IIs of VF-96, CVW-9, launch on a BARCAP mission from USS Ranger, [244] but the leader of the second element, Lt. Cdr. William Greer, in F-4B-16-MC, BuNo 151425, [245] loses an engine on launch and the fighter bellyflops into the sea, both crew ejecting. This was VF-96's first loss of the war.
View of the flight deck of USS Nimitz after the crash of the EA-6B. 26 May Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 159910, of VMAQ-2 Detachment Y, crash landed on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, off the Florida coast, [43] killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others (some reports say 42, some 48). The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last ...
"The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in ...
First loss: C-2A 152796 (VRC-50, USS Constellation), Gulf of Tonkin crash 2 October 1969, 26 passengers and crew killed; Final loss: C-2A 152793 (VRC-50, USS Ranger), Gulf of Tonkin crash 15 December 1970, 3 crew killed; E-1 Tracer—3 total, 0 in combat