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Naval Air Station Kingsville or NAS Kingsville (NASK) (IATA: NQI, ICAO: KNQI, FAA LID: NQI) is a United States Navy Naval Air Station located approximately 3 miles east of Kingsville, Texas in Kleberg County. NAS Kingsville is under the jurisdiction of Navy Region Southeast and is the headquarters of Training Air Wing Two.
Training Air Wing TWO (TW-2 or TRAWING 2) is a United States Navy aircraft training air wing based aboard Naval Air Station Kingsville, in Kingsville, Texas.TW-2 is one of five training air wings in the Naval Air Training Command, and consists of two jet training squadrons.
Training Squadron 21 (VT-21), known as the Redhawks, is a U.S. Navy strike jet training squadron stationed aboard Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas flying the T-45C Goshawk. The Redhawks are one of four strike jet training squadrons in operation today, and are under the command of Training Air Wing Two. [1]
This is a list of airfields operated by the United States Navy which are located within the United States and abroad. The US Navy's main airfields are designated as Naval Air Stations or Naval Air Facilities, with Naval Outlying Landing Fields (NOLF) and Naval Auxiliary Landing Fields (NALF) having a support role.
USS Kingsville (LCS-36) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] She will be the first ship to be named for Kingsville, Texas, which is home to Naval Air Station Kingsville .
The command moved to Naval Air Station, Kingsville in 1952 and again to Naval Air Station, New Iberia, Louisiana in 1960. It was there the squadron was redesignated VT-27 in July of that year and about that time that the Grumman S2F-1T Tracker was put into service as a multi-engine trainer.
In July 1960, BTG-7 was based at NAS Kingsville and was redesignated Training Squadron SEVEN (VT-7). [6] [7] In July 1961, VT-7 moved to NAS Meridian. [4] Five months later, VT-7 split to form VT-9. [5] In 1994, VT-23 was transferred from Training Air Wing Two to NAS Meridian, bringing the total number of training squadrons at NAS Meridian to ...
The T-45 has been used for intermediate and advanced portions of the Navy/Marine Corps Student Naval Aviator strike pilot training program with Training Air Wing One at Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi, and Training Air Wing Two at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas. The T-45 replaced the T-2C Buckeye intermediate jet trainer and the TA ...