VT-2 Doer Birds Patch Handle Heritage Home Ports Air Wings Deployments Aircraft Unit C.O.s Events Awards Squadron Photograph Album Squadron Off-Duty Album (empty) The Squadron Duty Officer (SDO), is the unit's contact point. They maintain unit rosters, help old friends link up, coordinate with unit reunions, and gather unit information. The SDO List. The Association is particularly interested in your Skyhawk related information and photos, but will gladly accept information about all eras of the unit. e-Mail the Association Webmaster. AND we welcome "anyone with an interest" in the Skyhawk to JOIN The Skyhawk Association. VT-2 Doer Birds - 1963 Patch drawn by Bud Southworth Patch No date to date Back to Table of Contents Handle Doer Birds Back to Table of Contents Heritage Training Squadron TWO Doer Birds were never assigned the A-4 Skyhawk; but the Rooks were in the training pipeline for many Skyhawk pilots. Back to Table of Contents Home Ports 1956? - - Naval Air Station Whiting North Field, Milton, Florida. Back to Table of Contents Air Wings No data to date Back to Table of Contents Deployments None Back to Table of Contents Aircraft 194? - - North American SNJ Texan - Harvard - T6.. 195? - - North American T-28C Trojan. 199? - - Beechcraft T-34C Mentor. Back to Table of Contents Commanding Officers No data to date Back to Table of Contents Events 194? Basic Training Group TWO (BTG-2) established. May 1, 1960 Basic Training Group TWO (BTG-2) redesignated Training Squadron Two (VT-2). 1963 Training Squadron Two was redesignated from Basic Training Group TWO (BTG-2) in the 1950s and is located at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Whiting North Field. VT-2 provides instruction in TPA - Transition, Precision flight and Acrobatics. Transition, Precision flight and Acrobatics phases take approximately six to eight weeks, depending on the weather and other factors, to complete. New student Naval Aviators start life at Whiting in ground school. Students attend class full days for the first couple of weeks and then half days when flight instruction commences. Learning to fly the North American T-28C Trojan at Training Squadron Two is called the transition stage. The T-28C is a much heavier aircraft, has a larger and more powerful engine, and climbs and cruises much faster than the smaller Beechcraft T-34B, which the student flew in primary instruction at Saufley Field. Transition phase is nine 1.3 hour instructional hops. The first eight flights are dual (with instructor in the back seat screaming at the stud). In the Transition phase the student is taught climb and let down procedures, simulated high altitude emergencies, preflight inspections, outlying field entry and full flap landings. The student Naval Aviator solos the T-28C on the ninth flight. The eight Precision phase flights take an average of 9 flight hours to complete. In Precision stage basic air work is smoothed and wing-overs practiced. The student learns to make precision landings at one of Whiting's outlying fields. The precision landings are in fact carrier landings made on the runway. A box is drawn on the runway and the student pilot attempts landing in the boxed area. All landings from this point are simulated carrier landings -- no other type landing is taught. The acrobatic training phase is a ten flight syllabus consists of four dual hops and six solo flights. There are four standard acrobatics maneuvers performed --- loops and barrel rolls; and the Immelmann and the half-Cuban eight. The stud learns that acrobatics is basically the same for all aircraft, the fundamental difference being power settings and air speed. At the completion of TPA the student Naval Aviator is well prepared for transfer to VT-3 at Whitng South Field for basic instruments, night flying, formation and gunnery. 2000 - the present: VT-2 is alive and well and flying the T-34C Mentor at Whiting Field. Back to Table of Contents Awards No data to date Back to Table of Contents Sources: No data to date Return To The Navy Units Page