![]() Twin air brakes were added on the sides of the rear fuselage in place of the single ventral air brake, a substantially strengthened airframe and intermediate engine casing, as well as U.S Navy standard cockpit instruments and radios, an On-Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS) and Martin Baker Mk.14 ejection seats. To 'navalise' the Hawk, major changes from the standard BAe Hawk aircraft were required, comprising of a stronger twin-wheel nose landing gear with a catapult launch bar, improved nose-wheel steering and long-stroke main landing gear, stressed to withstand carrier deck landings. The T-45 replaced both the Rockwell T-2C Buckeye intermediate trainer and the Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk advanced trainer in U.S Navy service, with the first development aircraft being rolled out at Long Beach, California, on 16th March 1988 and making its maiden flight exactly one month later on 16th April. It is a rare example of the U.S military adopting an aircraft of non-U.S origin in large scale numbers. The McDonnell-Douglas T-45C Goshawk is a naval version of the British Aerospace (BAe) Hawk aircraft and is used for the intermediate and advanced portions of the Navy/Marine Corps training programme for pilots destined for the 'fast-jet' community. Marine Corps NFOs will complete their training in the FA-18D with VMFAT-101 at MCAS Miramar, California. Following graduation, the Navy NFOs will train in the FA-18F Super Hornet with either VFA-106 at NAS Oceana, Virginia, VFA-122 at NAS Lemoore, California, or on the EA-18G Growler with VAQ-129 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington. The NFOs train for strike, close air support, and all-weather intercept missions. With its data-link network and instructor ground station, students perform complex missions against multiple air and surface targets. VMTS allows NFOs to train for air-to-air and air-to-ground missions using a synthetic radar that mirrors the capability of the FA-18 Hornet. Strike Fighter NFO training is conducted with VT-86 flying modified T-45C simulators and aircraft which incorporate the Virtual Mission Training System (VMTS). The U.S Navy TC-12B fleet is assigned to squadron VT-35 at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas.ĪEW students learn command and control and air intercept control, and after graduation move on to VAW-120 in Norfolk, Virginia for training in the E-2C or E-2D Hawkeye. The flight compartment contains seating for two pilots and the cabin section contains seating for one aircrew and up to seven passengers. The pressurised fuselage section of the TC-12B is divided into two sections the flight compartment and the cabin section. ![]() The flight and cabin compartments are pressurised for high altitude operations and a plug type ground escape hatch is located on the right side of the aircraft at the forward end of the passenger compartment. Other features of the aircraft include a cargo door and high-flotation landing gear. The original UC-12B version is a military derivative of the civilian King Air A200C, powered by a pair of 850SHP Pratt & Whitney PT6A-41 turbo-props. ![]() The TC-12B is used for advanced turbo-prop aircraft training and for intermediate E-2/C-2 training. A total of 49 UC-12Bs were ordered by the U.S Navy for base communication flights, with fourteen being converted to the TC-12B crew trainer for VT-31 at Corpus Christi. The Beechcraft TC-12B Huron is a twin-engine, pressurised, fixed-wing monoplane. ![]()
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