MAKE A MEME View Large Image Grumman C-1A Trader NMNA.jpg The museum's C-1A Trader redesignated from TF-1 in 1962 was accepted by the Navy on 30 June 1955 and four years later it was assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington CVS 16 when that carrier returned from a ...
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Keywords: Grumman C-1A Trader NMNA.jpg The museum's C-1A Trader redesignated from TF-1 in 1962 was accepted by the Navy on 30 June 1955 and four years later it was assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington CVS 16 when that carrier returned from a Far East cruise The airplane deployed in the ship when she embarked on what would turn out to be her final cruise in the Pacific and remained with Lexington when she was reassigned to the Naval Air Station NAS Pensacola Florida as the Navy's designated training aircraft carrier in 1963 For the next thirteen years she logged hundreds of flights between Forrest Sherman Field on board NAS Pensacola to the deck of Lady Lex in the final years of her service averaging double the monthly flight hours as C-1As assigned to the fleet After the airplane passed the 15 000 hour mark the decision was made to retire it from service and it was donated to the then-Naval Aviation Museum It is painted in a bicenntenial paint scheme of the type popular in naval aviation during 1976 the last year of its active service U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No 1976 035 001 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 37966 reftable ecatalogue refirn 16007561 QueryPage 2FQuery php s 1970 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Grumman C-1 Trader Aircraft at National Museum of Naval Aviation Florida in the 1970s
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