Tagged: MCAS Cherry Point

Airshow / Blue Angels / Marines / U.S. Marines

May 19, 2018

MCAS Cherry Point Air Show 2018

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point held their bi-annual air show May 4th through...

fighters / Marines / military / Trainers / U.S. Marines

June 9, 2016

VMAT-203 Hawks, Teaching the Ways of the Marine Corps Harrier

More than 40 years ago, Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 began fielding the Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier, in preparation for the Marines’ transition from A-4 Skyhawks to Harriers as their frontline attack jet. VMAT-203, known as the Hawks, has...

Formation Flying / museums / U.S. Marines

May 17, 2016

The Disestablishment and a Brief History of the VMAQT-1 Banshees

Oxford Dictionary defines the word “disestablish” as: dis·es·tab·lish, [disəˈstabliSH] vb. “deprive (an organization, especially a country’s national church) of its official status.” In military aviation, a disestablishment likely means that the squadron’s current operations, staffing, equipment and/or mission has...

fighters / Marines / military / navy / post

May 30, 2012

Bringing back 1981

She once felt the wind rushing against her airframe as she was thrown with a controlled violence into the blues skies of the Pacific Ocean, off of the USS Midway CV-41. Number 1981 was a McDonald Douglas RF-4B Phantom...