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Naval Air Station Pensacola became known as the "Annapolis of the Air". Station Field was created on the north side of the navy yard in 1922. Enlarged, it was renamed Chevalier Field in 1935 for Lt. Cdr. Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1910, and an early Naval Air Pilot, designated as No. 7 on 7 November ...
The museum is devoted to the history of naval aviation, including that of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.Its mission is "to select, collect, preserve and display" appropriate memorabilia representative of the development, growth and historic heritage of United States Naval Aviation. [2]
Henry Croskey Mustin (6 February 1874 – 23 August 1923) was a pioneering naval aviator who undertook the task of establishing the first Naval Aeronautic Station (now Naval Air Station Pensacola) on the site of the abandoned Navy Yard at Warrington, Florida in 1914. He was designated Navy Air Pilot No. 3 and later Naval Aviator No. 11.
Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station (NASP Corry Station), Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC), formerly known as Naval Technical Training Center Corry Station in Florida, United States, is a sub-installation of nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola that hosts several of the Navy's Information Warfare Corps training commands.
VT-86 at NAS Pensacola, FL for F/A-18D and EA-6B; In January 2003, VT-10 initiated instructor orientation flights in the T-6A "Texan II", the joint Air Force/Navy platform slated to replace the T-34C "Turbomentor" as the primary phase syllabus trainer. The T-6A "Texan II", is a single engine, two-seat trainer, which is fully aerobatic.
VT-4 or Training Squadron 4 is a training squadron of the United States Navy. Initially established as Basic Training Group 9 (BTG-9) in the 1950s, the squadron was redesignated as Training Squadron 4 (VT-4) on 1 May 1960 and based at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
T-39D Sabreliner trainer of VT-86 at Pensacola NAS in 1975. Following a decision to close NAS Glynco and deactivate TRAWING 8 as part of post-Vietnam War defense budget reductions, a Sabrehawk detachment was established at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida in March 1974.
T-28B Trojan assigned to VT-6 in the 1970s. On 1 July 1956, Multi-Engine Training Group (METG) was established at NAS Pensacola.At the time, student aviators would receive primary training in the T-34B and intermediate training in the T-28B/C.