VT-26 - Flying Tigers

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VT-26 Flying Tigers Drawn by Bud Southworth

VT-26 Flying Tigers - 1966 Provided by Dave Dollarhide

Patch

Air to Air Patch

Handle

Flying Tigers

Heritage

No info to date

Home Ports

Date: Location:

1970 - 1974 NAS Chase Field Beevile TX. (these dates are only years verified so far)

Air Wings

Date - - - - - - - - - - - - Tail code - - - - - - - Air Wing

No info to date

Deployments

None

 

Aircraft

 

Date Type First Received - - - - - - Type of Aircraft:

VT-26 never flew the A-4 Skyhawk, but many Skyhawk pilots trained with this unit.

19?? (1966) - - - - - - - - - - -F-11

I was an ADJ2 in VT26. I was there from April 1 1970 through September 4 1973. During that time we flew the F9 Panthers and later the T2C Buckeyes. The A4 Skyhawks were flown by VT24 and VT25. If I can help with any information from that time period I will be happy to do so.
Thomas Woodruff

Commanding Officers

Date Assumed Command - - - - - - - Commanding Officer

No info yet

Events

No Info to date

Awards

No info to date

 

Photographs

1966: VT-26, 1966. (F-11 days)
The students in this 1966 PR photo are LTJG Dollarhide, MARCAD Birdwell, 1stLt. Jones. Photo from Dave Dollarhide.

VT-26 BuNo.141824 F-11 Photo from Dave Dollarhide.

Sources:

Dave Dollarhide