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A fatal aircraft landing accident involving a U.S. Coast Guard Grumman E-2C Hawkeye, CG 3501, [24] of CGAW-1, based at CGAS St. Augustine, Florida, while returning to the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico [25] where the mission originated, prompted the Coast Guard to discontinue flying E-2Cs and to return all of its eight ...
The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier, piston-engined E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete.
A Grumman E-2B Hawkeye BuNo 151721, c/n 41, 'NF 013', of VAW-115, [99] and LTV A-7B-4-CV Corsair II, BuNo 154539, c/n B-179, [7] both from the USS Midway, collided over the Sea of Japan while both planes were preparing to land aboard, with the E-2 crashing near the stern of the carrier and killing all five crewmembers.
Plans are in the works to salvage the Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye that crashed near Chincoteague, killing Lt. Hyrum Hanlon. Navy identifies service member who died in E-2D Hawkeye plane crash in ...
March 31: A US Navy E-2 Hawkeye surveillance plane stationed with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower crashed in the Arabian sea at approximately 2 p.m. local time while returning from an operational flight conducted as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The one U.S. crew member presumed missing was declared dead and three were rescued.
1992 – A US Navy Grumman E-2C Hawkeye of VAW-126 on a training flight crashes in the Atlantic Ocean ~75 miles N of Puerto Rico while returning to the USS John F. Kennedy, killing all five crew. The Navy reported on 1 August that the aircraft radioed that it was in trouble before coming down ~4 miles from the carrier, the second plane loss of ...
2011 – Coalition aircraft strike an eastern suburb of Tripoli, Libya, [2] and attack Libyan government forces in Brega during the Third Battle of Brega. [3] [4] 2010 – A Grumman E-2 Hawkeye aircraft of the United States Navy from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 121 crashed at approximately 1400 hrs. local time in Arabian Sea. It was ...
Northrop Grumman won a pair of Pentagon contracts Tuesday, both benefiting the U.S. Navy, and both relating to the Navy's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. The smaller of the ...