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VT-86 celebrated its 25th anniversary of mishap-free flying on 8 April 2002. Since its inception in June 1972, VT-86 had logged more than 332,000 mishap-free flight hours and has the distinction of maintaining the longest documented accident-free period of any active flying squadron in Naval Aviation history.
Training Squadron 86 (VT-86) was subsequently established as a subordinate command to TRAWING 8 in order to provide advanced training for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps NFOs slated for eventual assignment as Radar Intercept Officers (RIO) in the F-4 Phantom II and F-14 Tomcat, Bombardier Navigators (B/N) in the A-3 Skywarrior, A-5 Vigilante ...
A US Navy North American T-39 Sabreliner of VT-86, en route from Chattanooga, Tennessee to NAS Pensacola, Florida, on a low-level navigation training mission, failed to arrive at ≈1500 hrs. as expected.
T-39D trainer of VT-86 Squadron US Navy at Pensacola NAS in 1975. Over 800 Sabreliners were produced, of which 200 were T-39s. [1] A number of retired military T-39s have also entered the civilian world since the military versions also carry FAA type certification. As of May 2007, 56 examples have been lost in accidents. [8]
The Naval Air Training Command (NATRACOM) is a one-star Echelon III command that conducts flight training of student Naval Aviators, and Naval Flight Officers.Though it does not conduct Naval Aircrew training which is conducted by Naval Education and Training Command's Naval Aviation Schools Command (NASC), it is responsible for monitoring the production of Aircrewmen through the Naval Aviator ...
VBF-86: 36 F4U Corsair fighters VF-86: 34 F6F Hellcat fighters VB-86: 15 SB2C Helldiver dive bombers VT-86: 15 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers Bennington (Capts. J.B. Sykes and B.L. Braun) Air Group 82 (Cmdr. G.L. Heap), 92 aircraft VF-82: 37 F6F Hellcat fighters VB-82: 15 SB2C Helldiver dive bombers VT-82: 15 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers VMF-112: ...
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SNFOs report to VT-86 and fly the T-45C Goshawk. Training consists of five phases: Contact phase (T-45 systems, emergency procedures, carrier operations, night operations, communications) Strike phase (air-to-ground radar, low level flying, mission planning, fuel awareness) Close air support phase (CAS procedures and communications)