The T-6B Texan II is the standard training aircraft for US Navy pilots, one of the bases that houses many of these aircraft is NAS Whiting Field, where this example was seen on the flightline.

The T-6B Texan II is the standard training aircraft for US Navy pilots, one of the bases that houses many of these aircraft is NAS Whiting Field, where this example was seen on the flightline.

Taken on Charge with the US Army with s/n 51-16608 in 1953, this Retriever was transferred to the Navy in 1958 as 147595. Stored at Litchfield Park, AZ from 1962. Registered N9685Z in 1975. Donated to Pima in 1981, restored in the 1961 colours of HU-1, Atsugi Naval Air Facility, Japan and initially displayed indoors but later moved outside where it deteriorated. Restored again and returned under cover in 2020 - it now looks superb and so much better without the extensive latex glazing protection used outdoors in the unforgiving Arizona sun.

By 1945 several squadrons of Privateers were conducting operations from the Philippines to the Aleutian Islands. The PB4Y-2 with its distinctive single tail was much better equipped than the earlier PB4Y-1, which was basically just an adapted B-24, and stayed in Navy service after the war for missions such as weather reconnaissance and signals intelligence, before being retired around 1955. Several were then modified as civilian air tankers used in fighting forest fires until 2002. This one was tanker 'C30', registered N3739G, now restored in the colours of VPB-120, Shemya Island, AK in 1945

A genuine Blue Angels Hornet, with the team from 2008 to 2012

Navy T-6s in air force colours can only be found at NAS Pensacola, these T-6As were delivered to this unit to combine air force and navy pilot training.

Navy centennnial markings are worn by this T-6A of the locally based unit from Pensacola.

Locally based T-45C Goshawk of VT-86 being towed.

Stored at AMARC since April 1981. Scrapped in 2008. Photographer unknown

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Built as a UC-12B in 1982 and later converted to trainer configuration and assigned to VT-35, NAS Corpus Christi, TX. To AMARC in 2006 and earmarked by the US Department of State but not taken up.

First served VA-81 and VA-83 before joining VA-46 in 1988. Displayed in their marks as onboard USS John F Kennedy in 1991. Markings below the cockpit indicate the number of bombs dropped by this aircraft in the Gulf War rather than missions flown. To AMARC 1991

In the colours of VFC-13, NAS Fallon, NV, ca. 1996. Originally delivered to the USAF as 74-1564, hence the out of sequence Bu Aer number adopted when the aircraft was transferred to the Navy around the early 1990s. Moved from the the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, Miramar to Pima in 2021 and repainted from Marines markings.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.

Many Goshawks can be found at NAS Meridian, home of TW-1 training US Navy and Marines jet pilots.