Official VT-27 Boomers 4th of July Patch and Name Tags — Training Squadron 27 NAS Corpus Christi T-6B Texan II Independence Day Embroidered Set
Independence Day on the Coastal Bend — VT-27 Boomers, T-6B Texan IIs in red, white, and blue.
Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), the "Boomers," is a US Navy primary flight training squadron based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, operating under Training Air Wing FOUR (CTW-4) and the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA). VT-27 was originally established on July 11, 1951 as Advanced Training Unit-B at NAS Corpus Christi, moved to NAS Kingsville in 1952 and to NAS New Iberia, Louisiana in 1960 — where it was redesignated VT-27 — and returned to NAS Corpus Christi in July 1964, where the Boomers have remained ever since. The squadron has trained generations of US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Coast Guard, and partner-nation aviators across the TS-2A Tracker, T-28 Trojan (October 1973), T-34C Mentor (August 1983), and the current Beechcraft T-6B Texan II — taken on charge in June 2013 with the squadron's last T-34C sortie flown one month later. As one of just five Navy primary training squadrons (and one of two on the Texas Coastal Bend), VT-27 averages over 11,000 training missions annually and more than 70 sorties per training day. This 4th of July Patch and Name Tags set is a limited-run Independence Day variant — the squadron's standard Boomers emblem reimagined in patriotic red, white, and blue with US flag accents to mark the holiday across the Coastal Bend training airspace.
Perfect For: VT-27 Boomers instructor pilots and student naval aviators, NAS Corpus Christi residents and Texas Coastal Bend naval aviation community, Training Air Wing FOUR (CTW-4) personnel, CNATRA staff, T-6B Texan II pilots and maintainers, families gathering for Independence Day on base, and the family members of student naval aviators in primary training.
Boomers — Independence Day, Coastal Bend.
