For over thirty years, the McDonnell Douglas T-45C Goshawk has been used to train student pilots for the US Navy and the US Marine Corps. Adapted from the British BAE Hawk, the T-45 was redesigned for ...

The Fleet Readiness Center Southeast inducted its first two T-45 Goshawks into the Service Life Extension Program production line, 13 months after the Navy identified the requirement. The U.S. Navy ...

Landing on an aircraft carrier defines Naval aviation. But new pilots won't have to do it until later in their training.

The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has rolled out a new pitch for a successor to the Navy’s T-45 Goshawk jet trainers. Interestingly, SNC’s proposal focuses heavily on the ability of its clean-sheet ...

Graduated pilots will now complete the carrier qualification during follow on training at their fleet replacement squadron, a Navy spokesperson said.

An L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) subsidiary has secured a potential $173 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy maintain 201 T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft units, systems and related support ...

Our Jamie Hunter had a chance to talk in depth about the Freedom jet with Ray “Fitz” Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Technology at SNC, and Derek Hess, Vice President of Strategy at ...

Five aviation companies are under contract to develop armed, unmanned aircraft and control systems for use on the Navy’s ...

For the US Air Force, the T-38 prepares students for high-performance combat aviation in wide-open airspace. Meanwhile, the T-45 emphasizes the challenges of carrier operations.

The U.S. Navy has to consider how much space it has on its carriers, so it prefers to utilize multi-functional helicopters ...

US Navy training aircraft crashes near Tellico Plains. A U.S. navy training aircraft has reportedly crashed near Tellico ...