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A Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), is a unit of the United States Navy or Marine Corps that trains Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers (NFOs) and enlisted Naval Aircrewmen on the specific front-line aircraft they have been assigned to fly. Students, referred to as Replacement Pilots, Replacement Flight Officers or Replacement Aircrew are ...
The first Replacement Pilot Class began training on the F/A-18 Hornet on 7 October 1985. In October and December 1987, respectively, VFA-106 received its first C and D models of the Hornet. In mid-1999, as a result of the BRAC -mandated closure of NAS Cecil Field, VFA-106 moved to NAS Oceana.
The second standardization initiative began in 1961 with the introduction of the Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) program. The purpose of an FRS is to indoctrinate newly designated aircrew (naval aviators, naval flight officers, enlisted naval aircrewman) and aircraft maintenance personnel into the peculiarities of specific aircraft. Prior to ...
Marine Aircraft Group 26 (MAG-26) is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station New River composed of seven MV-22 Osprey squadrons, one of which is the Fleet Replacement Squadron, an aviation logistics squadron, and a wing support squadron.
Until 1989, VMGRT-253 was also the Fleet Replacement Enlisted Skills Training Center (FREST), tasked with training all the KC-130 maintenance crew Marines and Sailors. As the Model Manager for maintenance training, VMGRT-253 consolidated East and West Coast technical schools into a new 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m 2 ) facility.
The squadron serves as the F-35B Lightning II Fleet Replacement Squadron. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Initially stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida , it previously fell administratively under Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31), but operationally under the U.S. Air Force's 33d Fighter Wing , which controls all F-35A training for the Air Force and ...
In March to April 1998, HMT-302 deployed to South Africa in support of Presidential Operation — the first Fleet Replacement Squadron to deploy overseas for a real world military operation. As of 4 March 2003, HMT-302 has surpassed 82710 Class A mishap-free flight hours in Sikorsky H-53 helicopters.
The Mission of Marine Helicopter Light Attack Training Squadron 303 is to provide qualitative and productive training to Replacement Aircrew (RAC), Refresher, Transition and Conversion pilots, as well as Bell UH-1Y Venom crew chiefs. This training is provided in the newly upgraded AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters.