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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Flight 19, a training flight of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers manned by 14 US Navy and Marine personnel from Ft Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida, vanished over the Bermuda Triangle under mysterious circumstances. The Avengers were four TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, FT3; BuNo 46094, FT36; BuNo 46325, FT81 and BuNo 73209, FT117) and TBM-3 ...
VF-60: 15 Jul 1943 – 19 Nov 1945: VF-60 19 November 1945 CVEG-60 established 15 Jul 1943, disestablished 19 Nov 1945 VF-66: Firebirds FR-1: VF-66: 1 Jan 1945 – 18 Oct 1945: VF-66 18 October 1945 CVEG-66 established 1 Jan 1945, disestablished 16 Jun 1945 VF-74 (1944) (first use) F6F: VF-74(1st): 25 Mar 1944 – 1 Oct 1944: VF-74 (1st) 1 ...
Oldest continuously active aircraft squadron in the U.S. Navy. Ranger's VB squadron was redesignated VS-41(2nd) to replace VS-41(1st) when it was redesignated a VF squadron (VF-42) VS-42 Establishment and disestablishment unknown listed in 'Status of Naval Aircraft' for July 1937. [20] Assigned to USS Ranger as one of two VS squadrons VS-5
The advanced training squadrons conduct the final stage of flight training leading to "winging" of the new Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Training squadrons are organized differently than the Navy's operational squadrons as training squadrons do not own their own aircraft.
December 5 – Flight 19, a formation of five U.S. Navy TBM Avengers with a total of 14 men aboard, vanishes without trace over the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida. A U.S. Navy PBM-5 Mariner flying boat sent to search for the Avengers also disappears with the loss of all 13 men aboard, apparently the victim of an accidental mid-air explosion.
A U.S. Navy PBM-1 of Patrol Squadron 56 (VP-56) in 1940. A PBM-5 on the deck of USS Norton Sound in April 1945 off Saipan A U.S. Navy PBM of Fleet Air Wing 6 is hoisted aboard the seaplane tender USS Curtiss (AV-4) after a mine-hunting patrol off North Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953).
Redesignated Fleet Air Wing 9 on 1 Nov 1942, disestablished on 19 Jul 1945 as Fleet Air Wing 9. Fleet Air Wing 10(1st) Established as Patrol Wing 10 in Dec 1940. Redesignated Fleet Air Wing 10 on 1 Nov 1942, disestablished on 1 Jun 1947 as Fleet Air Wing 10 (first use of the designation). Note: The current Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing TEN ...