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Grumman E-2C Hawkeye

The Grumman E-2C Hawkeye is an American all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft. The early E-2A and E-2B versions are no longer in service, todays Hawkeyes being to E-2C and E-2C+ standard. […]

Aircraft Carriers

United States Class

CVA-58 USS United States After the second World War, the new enemy of the US was the Soviet Union, and the age of the atomic weapons began. The only way to deploy those weapons was […]

Aircraft Carriers

Midway Class (3 ships)

CVB-41 USS Midway Built by: CVB-41 Midway: Newport News CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: New York Naval Yard CVB-43 Coral Sea: Newport News Gone into service: CVB-41 Midway: September 10th 1945 CVB-42 Franklin D. Roosevelt: October […]

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, variable sweep wing, two-placed fighter designed to attack and destroy enemy aircraft at night and in all weather conditions, from carriers or shore based. Three basic versions […]

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Dassault Super Etendard

The Super-Etendard is an attack aircraft by Dassault Aviation; it was developed to operate from the French navy’s aircraft carriers in the 1970’s. The Etendard is/was operational with the French and Argentinean Navy and some […]

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Boeing T-45A Goshawk

The Boeing (former McDonnell Douglas) T-45A Goshawk is the US Navy’s two-seat advanced jet trainer. The aircraft is jointly manufactured by Boeing and BAE Systems. The T-45A was selected to meet the US Navy requirement […]

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Pilatus P3

The Pilatus P3 was a trainer plane where 72 was built for the Swiss Air Army and 6 for the Brazil Navy. The two-seater Pilatus P3 trainer aircraft is a cantilever low-wing monoplane, of all […]

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Mc Donnel Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

The Mc Donnel Douglas Skyhawk is a product of the 1950’s. A light attack/multi-role aircraft developed for use of a flightdeck that did service for the US Navy and US Marine Corps as well as […]

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Hawker Sea Hurricane

The Hawker Sea Hurricane was an adapted shore based Hurricane fighter bomber by the fitting of a V-framed arrester hook and catapult spools. Some 300 Hurricanes were assigned for refitting as Sea Hurricanes, the rest […]