Item Description
Original Items: Only One Grouping Available. The Grumman C-1 Trader is a carrier onboard delivery (COD) variant of the Grumman S-2 Tracker. It was replaced by a similar version of the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the C-1 Trader carried mail and supplies to aircraft carriers on station in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War and also served as a trainer for all-weather carrier operations. Over its production life 87 C-1 Traders were built, of which four were converted into EC-1A Tracer electronic countermeasures aircraft.[1] The last C-1 was retired from USN service in 1988; it was the second-to-last radial-engine aircraft in U.S military service (The last C-131 wasn't retired until 1990). As of 2010, approximately ten were still airworthy in civil hands, operating as warbirds.[citation needed]
In 1956 the U.S. Marine Corps Test Unit Number 1 (MCTU #1) tested the concept of using the TF-1 variant as a vehicle for inserting reconnaissance teams behind enemy lines. “On 9 July 1956 MCTU Recon Marines became the first to parachute from a TF-1. Less than three weeks later, four recon parachutists launched from the USS Bennington, which was 70 miles at sea, and jumped on a desert drop zone near El Centro California, some 100 miles inland. For the first time in Marine Corps and Naval Aviation history, the technique of introducing recon personnel off a carrier sea base to an inland objective had successfully been tested.”
In August 2010, Brazilian Naval Aviation announced that it would buy and modernize eight C-1 airframes to serve in carrier onboard delivery (COD) and aerial refueling roles for use on its aircraft carrier São Paulo. In 2011 a contract was signed with Marsh Aviation to convert four ex-US Navy C-1A Trader airframes into KC-2 Turbo Traders. The first KC-2 prototype flight was expected for November 2017 and the delivery of the first operational aircraft was scheduled for December 2018.
The Items In This Grouping:
- Gentex APH-6D With Oxygen Mask: Great condition but has most of the inside stripped with the avionics partially detached. The reverse has KISS taped on.
Equipment Survival Vest Type SV-2B: Green nylon sage integrated survival / life vest; zipper front; life preserver around waist and neck; 2 zipper pockets on right side for radio and rations; snap and zipper pocket on left. This appears to no longer contain a flotation device.
- CSU-15/P Anti-G Suit, Cutaway Size Medium Regular: "G-suit" as worn by tactical aircraft pilots. The G-suit had bladders at the abdomen, thighs, and calves. When worn and hooked to the aircraft, the bladders inflate and deflate depending on the G (times of gravity) placed on the pilot- this inflation, when combined with muscle contraction will prevent blood from pooling in the lower extremities, leaving the brain and causing black out. The CSU-15 is made of a shiny nomex cloth (similar to CWU-36 flight jacket) and zippered shin pockets. Bladders appear to no longer be present.
- Goodyear Steel Toe Black Leather Boots: The boots are well worn but still solid and are a size 10R.
- Paperwork / Documents: The paperwork is mostly chains of custody receipts for the gear that Peter B. Kissell was in possession of, some of which is in this lot. There is also a Replacements Pilot Flight Instructor’s Master Curriculum Guide for the C-1A Aircraft.
- x5 Stickers: The stickers are unused and appear to be “usable”. The stickers are for the S-3B Viking and 4 VCR-30 “Service Land & Sea stickers.
- S-3 Viking Maintenance Patch: The patch looks newly made.
- Blue Summer Weight Coveralls: The coveralls show signs of honest use and wear without significant damage. They are a size Medium Regular. The coveralls are labeled as being fire resistant.
There are a few more items in the lot such as nomex gloves, clear visor cover and minor uniform items.
Comes more than ready for further research and display.
VRC-30
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30 (VRC-30), also known as the "Providers", is a United States Navy Fleet Logistics Support squadron based at Naval Air Station North Island consisting of 5 detachments. VRC-30 is one of only two active, carrier-capable, Fleet Logistics Support squadrons, the other being VRC-40.
Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Three Zero (VRC-30), traces its ancestry to Air Transport Squadron Five (VR-5) which was established on 24 June 1943 at Naval Air Station Seattle. The Squadron was tasked with flying the Douglas R4D Skytrain, Douglas R5D Skymaster, Beechcraft SNB Expeditor and the Noorduyn JA-1 Norseman aircraft in regular air service to Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, the Aleutian Islands, Fairbanks and Point Barrow on the Alaskan Mainland.
In February 1980, VRC-30 added the C-12 Fleet Replacement Squadron, providing ground and flight instruction for all Pacific Fleet Navy and Marine Corps Pilots and Aircrew in the UC-12B/F Beechcraft Super King Air. VRC-30's C-12 FRS acts as the Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet NATOPS Model Manager and Unit Evaluator, in addition to their primary job of flight instruction. VRC-30 retired the 6 C-1A Trader Aircraft and transitioned to the C-2A Greyhound in late 1985 by accepting deliveries of five C-2A Greyhound
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