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United States. rotorcraft trainer. 4 [1] An F-35C conducts a test flight with VX-23, February 2011. A C-2 Greyhound from VRC-40, October 2009. An SH-60 Seahawk of HSL-47, April 2018. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to VFA-102, May 2006. A C-40A Clipper from VR-59, August 2015.
The last production airplane (the Caroline Mars) was designated JRM-2, powered by 3,000 hp (2,200 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-4360 engines, and featured a higher maximum weight and other improvements. On 4 March 1949, the Caroline Mars set a new world passenger load record by carrying 269 people from San Diego to San Francisco, CA . [6]
A US Navy HSS-1 Seabat of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Two (HS-2) aboard aircraft carrier Yorktown , circa 1959. A US Marine Corps F4H-1 Phantom II jet of Marine All-Weather Fighter Squadron 314 (VMF (AW)-314) firing an AIM-7 Sparrow missile, circa 1961. This list of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) includes prototype ...
1940–1945. Number built. 3,181 [1] The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company publicity. [2] It was used primarily as a cargo aircraft during ...
The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, Douglas reworked it after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market.
Douglas continued to develop new aircraft, including the successful four-engined Douglas DC-6 (1946) and its last propeller-driven commercial aircraft, the Douglas DC-7 (1953). The company had moved into jet propulsion, producing its first for the U.S. Navy — the straight-winged F3D Skyknight in 1948 and then the more "jet age" style F4D ...
Convair CV-240. Variants. NC-131H TIFS. The Convair C-131 Samaritan is an American twin-engined military transport produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair CV-240 family of airliners. [2] This was one of the last radial engined aircraft in US service, along with C-1 Trader .
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier , originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1] It was soon followed by the other pre- World War II classes: the Lexington class ; USS Ranger , the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; the Yorktown ...