VT-28
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|unit_name= Training Squadron Twenty Eight
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|dates= 1 May 1960 - present
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|command_structure= Training Wing Four
|garrison= NAS Corpus Christi
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|nickname= Rangers
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|motto="The Foundation Builders"
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The VT-28 "Rangers" is a U.S. Navy primary flight training squadron based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas.
History
File:VT-28_Multi-engine_Patch.jpg
File:Grumman TS-2A 133264 VT-28 MIA 18.07.76 edited-3.jpg at Miami in 1976]]
VT-28 was initially established as Advanced Training Unit 611 (ATU-611).{{Cite web|url=http://www.vpnavy.com/vt28_history.html|title=VPNAVY - VT-28 History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron}} The Rangers began as an advanced multi-engine training squadron flying the S2F-1T, a training variant of the Grumman S-2 Tracker. On 1 May 1960 ATU-611 was redesignated VT-28 and in September 1962 its aircraft was redesignated the TS-2A in accordance with the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system.
After decades of use and the designation of thousands of Naval Aviators, the TS-2A was replaced with the T-44A Pegasus twin-engine turboprop trainer in 1979.{{Cite web|url=http://www.felhofer.com/military/about.htm|title=About VT-28}} VT-28 continued training advanced multi-engine aviators until 1990 when the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) reassigned the squadron to be responsible for training instructors and updating training syllabi for the T-44A and T-34C Turbo Mentor. Three years later, CNATRA again reassigned VT-28, this time to be the Navy's fifth primary training squadron flying the T-34C Turbo Mentor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw4/vt28/history.asp|title=VT-28 Rangers}} In 2013 the squadron began its transition from the T-34C to the Navy's newest primary flight trainer, the Beechcraft T-6B Texan II
Aircraft
- S2F-1T / TS-2A Tracker - Advanced multi-engine (1960-1979)
- T-44A King Air - Advanced multi-engine (1979-1993)
- T-34C Turbo Mentor - Primary flight training (1990-2013)
- T-6B Texan II - Primary flight training (2013 to present){{Cite web|url=http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/corpus-t-6-transition.40630/#post-747990|title = Corpus T-6 transition}}