In this special Texas flag livery the aircraft comes from Training Air Wing TWO (TW-2) based at Naval Air Station Kingsville, in Kingsville, Texas.
Naval Air Station Kingsville is one of the U.S. Navy’s premier locations for jet aviation training.
The naval air station’s primary mission is to train Student Naval Aviators for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps and tactical jet pilots
for other select NATO and Allied countries.
To accomplish its mission, NAS Kingsville is home to Training Air Wing Two and several tenant commands, military as well as civilian,
with a total complement of approximately 300 officers, 200 enlisted, 350 civilian personnel, and 625 contract maintenance personnel.
The wing was the first in the Navy to operate the Boeing T-45 Goshawk aircraft,
providing a single carrier-capable aircraft to replace the North American Rockwell T-2 Buckeye and the McDonnell Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk II in the Navy's strike pilot training pipeline.
Originally equipped with the T-45A model of the Goshawk, the wing began accepting new production T-45C model aircraft in 2005,
which replaces the earlier T-45A aircraft's analog cockpit with a digital or "glass" cockpit similar to what students will find when they transition to operational fleet combat aircraft.
All T-45A aircraft at NAS Kingsville are slated to be retrofitted and upgraded to a T-45C configuration under the T-45 Required Avionics Modernization Program (T-45 RAMP),
with a select number of RAMP modified aircraft slated for transfer to Training Air Wing SIX at NAS Pensacola,
Florida in support of Student Naval Flight Officer training under the Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) program.
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1 years ago
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2 years ago
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