Pensacola Naval Air Station (NPA) Escambia County (FL)

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NAS Pensacola

United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels)

Blue Angels

Mission
The mission of the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron is to showcase the Pride and Professionalism of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and inspire a culture of excellence and service to country by conducting flight demonstrations and community outreach.

Description
A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. The Blue Angels’ C-130, affectionately known as Fat Albert, begins each demonstration by exhibiting its maximum performance capabilities during a ten-minute performance. Shortly thereafter, you will see the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-jet Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two Solo pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet Delta Formation.

General Information
The team is stationed at Forrest Sherman Field, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, during the show season. However, the squadron spends January through March training pilots and new team members at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California.

United States Navy Training Air Wing SIX (TW6)

TRAWING SIX

• Tail Code - F

TRAWING SIX trains and graduates approximately 300 United States Navy, Marine Corps, and international students annually. Students from Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore represent approximately ten percent of the total. Like their U.S. counterparts, international students can be found in our entire training pipeline.

Currently, we have 10 T-39 "Sabreliners", 42 T-6A "Texan II", and 12 T-45 "Goshawks" in our inventory. Our instructor cadre includes Navy and Marine instructor pilots, Naval Flight Officers (NFO), and Weapon Systems Officers (WSO), as well as international flight instructors.

Training Squadron FOUR (VT-4)

Warbucks

• Callsign - BUCK
• Aircraft - Multicrew Simulator (MCS), T-45 Goshawk
• Nickname - "Warbucks"

Training Squadron 4 is a training squadron of the United States Navy. Initially established as Basic Training Group NINE (BTG-9) in the 1950s, the squadron was re-designated as Training Squadron FOUR (VT-4) on May 1, 1960 and based at NAS Pensacola, Florida.

In December 2010, VT-4 temporarily went into cadre status and all VT-4 instructors and students became a part of VT-10, answering to the VT-10 Commanding Officer. VT-4 has since become independent again, formerly flying the T-39 Sabreliner and is now in the process of introducing the Multicrew Simulator (MCS) to TRAWING SIX. VT-4 will eventually become the winging squadron for all NFOs destined for the E-2 Hawkeye, E-6 Mercury, EP-3 Aries, P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon, relieving the respective Fleet Replacement Squadrons (FRS) for those type/model/series (T/M/S) aircraft of that responsibility.

Since its commissioning, VT-4 has amassed over 600,000 flight hours. The squadron has logged 42,000 carrier landings.

Training Squadron TEN (VT-10)

Wildcats

• Callsign - KATT
• Aircraft - T-6A Texan II
• Nickname - "Wildcats"

Training Squadron TEN (VT-10) is a training squadron of the United States Navy based at NAS Pensacola, Florida. VT-10 has a 60 member Navy and Marine Corps instructor staff that currently trains over 300 NFOs annually. In 1997, command of VT-10 began alternating between Navy and Air Force Officers.

Upon graduation from the Primary or Intermediate phases of flight training, students proceed to follow-on training according to branch of service and ultimate operational aircraft.

Training Squadron EIGHT SIX (VT-86)

Sabrehawks

• Callsign - ROKT (Rocket)
• Aircraft - T-45 Goshawk
• Nickname - "Sabrehawks"

Training Squadron EIGHT SIX is known by several names: TRARON EIGHT SIX, VT-86, or simply the SABREHAWKS, a name derived from the T-39 Sabreliner and the TA-4J Skyhawk. The squadron was commissioned in June 1972, under the operational control of Commander Training Air Wing EIGHT, Naval Air Station, Glynco, [[Georgia (US)|Georgia. Following a decision to close NAS Glynco and deactivate TRAWING 8, a Sabrehawk detachment was established at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida in March 1974. On 1 June 1974, the squadron commenced flight operations at Naval Air Station Pensacola under operational command of Commander, Training Air Wing SIX (TRAWING 6), training Naval Flight Officers for nearly all carrier-based aircraft.

Currently the squadron trains over 150 students annually, and to date, has provided the United States military and Allied forces with over 7,300 NFOs, WSOs, and Navigators flying various tactical aircraft worldwide.

United States Air Force 479th Flying Training Group

479th FTG

The 479th Flying Training Group (479 FTG) is a United States Air Force unit, stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP). A component of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), the 479 FTG was activated on 2 October 2009.

The unit conducts Undergraduate Combat Systems Officer (CSO) training, replacing the former Undergraduate Navigator Training (UNT) curriculum previously taught by the 12th Flying Training Wing (12 FTW) at Randolph AFB, Texas.

The 479 FTG is an operational component of the 12th FTW at Randolph as a Geographically Separated Unit (GSU), flying the T-6A Texan II and T-1A Jayhawk at NASP. The first CSO class, 11-01, graduated on 15 April 2011.

The group controls three subordinate squadrons as follows:

451st Flying Training Squadron (451 FTS)

451 FTS

• Callsign - CONGO (Formerly SNIPE)
• Aircraft - T-1A Jayhawk

The 451st Flying Training Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit. Its assigned to the 479th Flying Training Group, stationed at NAS Pensacola, Florida.

Reactivated as a reserve air training command squadron; assigned and performed advanced flight training for air cadets, 1947-1949. Inactivated due to funding restrictions. Assigned to Tactical Air Command and reactivated in 1954 flying F-86 Sabres; later F-100 Super Sabres as a fighter-day squadron. Inactivated in 1957 due to funding restrictions. Reactivated in 1972 as an Air Training Command navigator training squadron; flew T-29; later T-43 navigation classroom aircraft.

As of 2 Oct 2009, the 451st FTS trains Combat Systems Officers(CSOs) utilizing 21 modified T-1A Jayhawk aircraft.

455th Flying Training Squadron (455 FTS)

455 FTS

• Callsign - JEDI
• Aircraft - T-6A Texan II

The 455th Flying Training Squadron was activated as the 455th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) on Aug. 4, 1942, at Columbia Army Air Base, S.C. It deployed to the European theater of operations in World War II and flew B-26 bombers during the war. It was inactivated on Dec. 12, 1945. The unit was reactivated in the reserve on June 27, 1949, at Tinker AFB, OK, as the 455th Bombardment Squadron (Light) flying the T-6, T-11 and B-26. It was inactivated in March 1951. It was redesignated the 455th Fighter-Bomber Squadron and activated on Aug. 8, 1955, at Eielson AFB, Alaska, and then moved to Bunker Hill AFB, Idaho, in November, flying the F-86 and F-100. The unit went inactive again Sept. 1, 1957, but was later stood up as the 455th Flying Training Squadron on April 1, 1973, at Mather AFB, CA, conducting Undergraduate Navigator Training until deactivation in the early 1990s. Among its honors are seven World War II campaign streamers, a Distinguished Unit Citation, and four Air Force Outstanding Unit awards.

The Squadron was reactivated on Oct. 2, 2009, as the 455th Flying Training Squadron and serves as a tenet unit to the 479th Flying Training Group at NAS Pensacola, Florida.

479th Operations Support Squadron (479 OSS)

479 OSS

The 479th Operations Support Squadron supports the primary and advanced phases of the undergraduate combat systems officer training. The squadron conducts academic training, scheduling, aviation resource management, communications, current operations, aircrew flight equipment, and flight physiology functions for the group.

Radio Comunications

Land Mobile Radio(LMR)

Primary land mobile communications uses site 2-12 and 2-13 of this system.

United States Department of Defense (BEE00-14C)

Site	Name	Freqs
012 (C)	Naval Air Station - Pensacola	385.312500a	386.012500c	386.250000	386.512500	386.850000	388.062500	388.237500	388.337500
		388.600000	388.800000

Site	Name	Freqs
013 (D)	Naval Outlying Field - Saufley	386.037500a	386.287500c	386.787500	388.087500	388.587500

TRAWING SIX Operations

T-6A Texan II Comm Card

Frequencies / Channels (as of Oct 1, 2013)
Preset	UHF	Agency	VHF	Agency	Mode	Notes
01	266.800	NPA ATIS	124.350	NPA ATIS	AM
02	268.700	NPA C/D	134.100	NPA C/D	AM
03	336.400	NPA Ground	121.700	NPA Ground	AM
04	340.200	NPA Tower	120.700	NPA Tower	AM
05	372.000	PNS App/Dep	120.050	PNS App/Dep	AM
06	270.800	PNS App/Dep	120.650	PNS App/Dep	AM
07	314.000	NPA Approach	125.350	NPA Approah	AM
08	239.050	NPA GCA 8	121.250	PNS ATIS	AM
09	305.200	NPA GCA 9	119.900	PNS Tower	AM
10	318.800	NPA GCA 10	135.575	BFM ATIS	AM
11	285.625	NPA GCA 11	118.800	BFM Tower	AM
12	348.725	NPA GCA 12	124.750	MOB ATIS	AM
13	383.800	NPA GCA 13	118.300	MOB Tower	AM
14	288.325	NPA GCA 14	135.175	PQL ATIS	AM
15	303.150	Area 1 Common	118.575	PQL Tower	AM
16	360.720	Gator - South MOA	118.500	MOB APP (E)	AM
17	259.250	Choctaw Tower	122.700	JKA CTAF	AM
18	333.300	VNAV Tactical	122.800	1R8/79J CTAF	AM
19	355.400	VT-10 Base	123.00	MVC CTAF	AM
20	357.050	VT-10 Common	140.400	VT-10 Common	AM
Manual Frequencies
Manual	UHF	Agency	VHF	Agency	Mode	Notes
M	269.425	Barin RDO	123.050	Foley	AM
M	290.550	Choctaw ATIS	122.800	Fairhope	AM
M	254.350	Evergreen RDO	122.700	Evergreen	AM
M	254.900	Areas 2T/Fox/Pelican	122.725	Brewton	AM
M	299.500	Area 3 Common	129.375	JKA-Gulf Air CTR	AM
M	362.800	R2908/Form Common	122.950	Downtown AIR CTR	AM
M	254.250	Gulfport Approach	124.600	Gulfport Approach	AM
M	359.600	NPA Weather	121.700	BFM Ground	AM
M	312.100	NPA Base Ops	121.900	MOB Ground	AM
M	246.800	TAC A (B/U 246.85)	123.370	TAC A (B/U 123.32)	AM
M	246.900	TAC B (B/U 246.92)	123.470	TAC B (B/U 123.42)	AM
M	303.000	TAC C (B/U 303.05)	123.570	TAC C (B/U 123.52)	AM
M	357.000	TAC D (B/U 357.1)	123.670	TAC D (B/U 123.62)	AM
M	362.470	TAC E (B/U 362.52)	123.770	TAC E (B/U 123.72)	AM

T-45 Pri & Aux Comm Card

Frequencies / Channels (as of Oct. 1, 2013)
Preset	Frequency	Agency	Mode	Notes
01	266.800	NPA ATIS	AM
02	268.700	NPA C/D	AM
03	336.400	NPA Ground	AM
04	340.200	NPA Tower	AM
05	372.000	PNS App/Dep	AM
06	270.800	PNS App/Dep	AM
07	314.000	NPA Approach	AM
08	239.050	NPA GCA 8	AM
09	305.200	NPA GCA 9	AM
10	318.800	NPA GCA 10	AM
11	285.625	NPA GCA 11	AM
12	348.725	NPA GCA 12	AM
13	383.800	NPA GCA 13	AM
14	288.325	NPA GCA 14	AM
15	353.775	SEABREEZE PRI	AM
16	275.600	SEABREEZE DISC	AM
17	228.850	SHELBY PRI	AM
18	309.800	GATOR MOA	AM
19	307.100	MOBILE APCH	AM
20	288.150	HOUSTON CTR	AM
21	346.400	JAX CTR	AM
22	267.900	ATL CTR	AM
23	299.325	TAC 23	AM
24	366.325	TAC 24	AM
25	278.700	TAC 25	AM
26	288.600	TAC 26	AM
27	310.900	TAC 27	AM
28	320.650	TAC 28	AM
29	255.400	FSS	AM
30	315.400	ROKT BASE	AM

SEABREEZE (as of Oct. 1, 2013)
Frequency	Usage	Mode	Notes
348.000	Gritrock	AM
353.775	UHF Primary	AM
127.450	VHF Primary	AM
306.800	Discrete 1	AM
275.600	Discrete 2	AM
379.225	Discrete 3	AM
385.200	Discrete 4	AM
363.050	Discrete 5	AM
280.700	Discrete 6	AM
346.500	Discrete 7	AM
274.200	Discrete 8	AM
317.675	Discrete 9	AM

479th Flying Training Group Operations

451st Flying Training Squadron (451 FTS)

Frequencies / Channels (as of Q2 2015)
Preset	Frequency	Agency	Mode	Notes
15	351.750	CONGO Ops	AM

Wiki Articles

• Blue Angels Pensacola NAS Homecoming and Beach Airshows
• Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA)
• Gulf States Milcom
• Navy Region Southeast
• United States Department of Defense (14C)
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External Links

• NAS Pensacola Official CNIC Website
• National Naval Aviation Museum Official Website
• Blue Angels Official Website