Training Squadron 86

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Training Squadron 86

Official USN patch of the SabreHawks

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[edit] Also Known As

  • VT-86
  • TRARON Eighty-Six
  • Nickname: SabreHawks

[edit] General Information

Upon graduation from VT-10 or VT-4 [just across the flightline at NAS Pensacola on the Florida panhandle] students check into VT-86.

VT-86's mission is to provide advanced flight instruction to Naval Flight Officers, which has an acronym of NFO.

The squadron syllabus covers everything from systems, navigation, low-level flight, advanced aerial combat maneuvering [ACM...also known as "dogfighting"], and communications.

In addition to training US Navy officers, it also conducts joint training fro US Air Force, Germany, Italy, and Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

Upon graduation, the newly winged NFO's move to the Fleet Replacement Squadron "FRS" where they will learn to fly the aircraft the will fly on a daily basis once they go to their fleet squadron.

Some of the airplanes the NFO's will fly:

US Navy

  • S-3 Viking
  • EA-6B Prowler
  • F/A-18 Hornet [D, F, or G models]

US Air Force

  • B-1B Lancer
  • F-15E Strike Eagle

US Marine Corps

  • EA-6B Prowler
  • F-18 Hornet [[D, F, or G models]

German

  • Panavia Tornado
  • F-4 Phantom

Singaporean

  • F-16

Italian

  • Panavia Tornado

Saudi Arabian

  • F-15E Strike Eagle

VT-86 is a subordinate command of TRAWING-6 [Training Air Wing 6].

[edit] Aircraft Flown

[edit] Past Aircraft Flown

[edit] External links

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