North American T-2C Buckeye
Quick Facts
Quick Facts
For over four decades, aspiring Navy and Marine Corps pilots learned the art of operating jets from aircrafts carriers in a T-2 Buckeye.
Unglamorous and unsophisticated, the T-2 was designed for only one mission: intermediate flight training of future Navy and Marine jet pilots.
After being evaluated at NAS Patuxent River in 1959, T2Js were assigned to the Naval Air Training Command until 2008, after they were replaced by the T-45 Goshawk.
Buckeyes were also flown by Greece and Venezuela.
