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UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION 1910-1995

1985-Contin ued

1 April VP-68 completed its move from NAS

Patuxent River, Md., to NAF Washington, D.C., located

at Andrews AFB. Relocation of the reserve antisubma-

rine warfare squadron, which operated the P-3B Orion,

was to make room for the JVX test program at NAS

Patuxent River, but also helped balance base loading at

NAF Washington. The V-22 Osprey, formerly the JVX, a

multiservice, tilt-rotor V/STOL aircraft, was scheduled

for testing at the Naval Air Test Center starting in 1988.

12 April VAQ-133 returned the last fleet EA-6B

EXCAP aircraft, BuNo 159585, to Grumman Aircraft

Corporation for ICAP II modification at the company's

facilities on Long Island, N.Y. VAQ-133 began its tran-

sition to the ICAP II EA-6B in January 1985.

26 April David Sinton Ingalls, Naval Aviator No. 85

and the Navy's only World War I flying ace, died at his

home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, after a stroke. Ingalls was

a member of the First Yale Unit before he was ordered

to the Royal Flying Corps and later assigned to Royal

Air Force Squadron Number 213, located in Berguess,

France. He shot down four enemy planes and one

aerial balloon during the war and later served as

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics during

the Hoover administration.

30 May The keel was laid for Wasp during cere-

monies at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

First of a new class of amphibious ships, the LHD was

designed to accommodate helicopters such as the CH-

53E Super Stallion and SH-60B Seahawk, as well as the

MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and the AV-8B Harrier II.

14 June Nimitz was called to the coast of Lebanon

for contingency operations in support of United States

efforts to release American hostages held in Beirut.

19 June The Navy announced the selection of the

Goshawk as the popular name for the T-45A trainer,

which was a part of the T-45 training system (formerly

VTXTS) scheduled to replace the T-2C and TA-4J aircraft

operated by the Training Command. The name Goshawk

was previously applied by Curtiss to the FIIC-2 fighters

which were manufactured for the Navy in 1933.

After a launch from an F/A-18 Hornet, the AMRAAM streaks toward its tm-get during testing at Pacific Missile Test Centel; Point Mugu, Calif