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Official VT-28 Rangers Texas Shoulder Patch — Training Squadron 28 NAS Corpus Christi T-6B Texan II Embroidered Patch
Where Naval Aviators are made — VT-28 Rangers, T-6B Texan IIs on the Texas Coastal Bend.
Training Squadron 28 (VT-28), the "Rangers," 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). The squadron was commissioned on May 1, 1960 at NAS Corpus Christi — having previously operated as Advanced Training Unit 611 — initially flying 48 TS-2A/TS-2F Trackers and setting new training, safety, and cost-efficiency records in its first ten months. Through more than six decades of continuous service the Rangers have produced thousands of US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Coast Guard, and partner-nation aviators, transitioning from the Tracker to the T-44A Pegasus in 1979 (advanced multi-engine training), to the T-34C Turbo Mentor in 1990 — first as the Navy's first Instructor Training Squadron, then as a primary training squadron beginning in 1993 — and ultimately taking delivery of the Beechcraft T-6B Texan II in April 2015. Today VT-28 is one of just five Navy primary training squadrons and one of two on the Texas Coastal Bend, where every selected student naval aviator earns the foundational airmanship — contact, instruments, formation, navigation, and aerobatics — that determines their pipeline assignment to jets, multi-engine, helicopter, or E-2/C-2 Hawkeye/Greyhound. The Rangers' distinctive Texas-themed insignia and tail markings are a fixture of the Coastal Bend skies.
Perfect For: VT-28 Rangers 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, T-34C Turbo Mentor and TS-2 Tracker heritage instructors, Naval Aviator alumni, and the family members of student naval aviators in primary training.
Rangers — primary flight training, NAS Corpus Christi since 1960.
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