Naval Aviator Number?

[Gatordev]

I didn't know NAS Glynco was a thing. Think I'll go read up on that and see if I can go find it. Kind of makes me wonder if it's where the "missile silo" is. Off to the Google Machine...

 

[Renegade One]

I didn't know NAS Glynco was a thing. Think I'll go read up on that and see if I can go find it. Kind of makes me wonder if it's where the "missile silo" is. Off to the Google Machine...

A big thing in its day…now the site of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, along with a bunch of other stuff. Think it was BRACed in 1974, and all of the NFO training (VT-86) moved to Pensacola under TRAWING SIX.

 

[Gatordev]

Ah, okay, so it's Brunswick. In my exhaustive 2 minutes of google searching, I haven't been able to find a picture of the airfield back in the day. I'd be surprised if it only had one runway, but maybe it just worked back then. I don't see a cut in the trees where another was in current pics.

That's a cool little area over there. Unfortunately we're not allowed to fly in there at the moment, but in the past, it was fun to go wake up the FLETC people at midnight during a goggle flight.

 

[Flash]

Here's a terrific resource on the subject: "History of the Naval Aviator and Designations and Numbers".

It's the best single-source write up I've seen yet on the development and changes to Naval Aviator and NFO wings, and the "History of Naval Aviator Numbers".

Hey, that looks somewhat familiar! I wonder where I have seen that before?!

While some bases apparently still give out numbers CNATRA officially stopped handing out Naval Aviator numbers in the 70's (pages 197 and 198 in the following link)

The Chief of Naval Air Training quit issuing Naval Aviator Numbers sometime in the 1970s. Documentation has not been located that gives the date or provides reasons why the assignment of Naval Aviator numbers was discontinued. To date, no complete listing of all Naval Aviator numbers, including the letter-number designations, has been found. Moreover, it is highly unlikely a complete list exists because of the decentralization of the system during WWII. Bits and pieces of the listing for Naval Aviator numbers is held by the Naval Aviation History Office. However, the WWII and post-war period list is not organized in any alphabetical or chronological order, consequently, it is extremely difficult to find any individual’s number.

 

[Renegade One]

Ah, okay, so it's Brunswick. In my exhaustive 2 minutes of google searching, I haven't been able to find a picture of the airfield back in the day.

There's an overhead graphic in the link below that looks about right from my recollection of the 1972 timeframe:
http://nattcglynco.blogspot.com

 

[Pags]

There's an overhead graphic in the link below that looks about right from my recollection of the 1972 timeframe:
http://nattcglynco.blogspot.com

The author of that blog needs to learn the difference between hanger and hangar.

 

[Gatordev]

There's an overhead graphic in the link below that looks about right from my recollection of the 1972 timeframe:
http://nattcglynco.blogspot.com

Yeah, I saw that. Although that's a "current" Google Maps picture. I didn't know the Navy was capable of making a base with only one runway.

 

[GroundPounder]

I spent my summers on the farm outside of Waycross, Ga. It was the high point of my day to have several F4s come screaming by almost before they could be heard. My memory tells me they were about 200 ft off the deck, I wonder what the reality was?

My uncle was a civilian firefighter that worked Mayport, he always said the jets that flew over us were from Brunswick.