Because Marine aviation was in its infancy, he trained at Navy aviation schools in San Diego , and Pensacola, Fla., and an Army Air Corps School in Montgomery, Ala.

From its beginning, the installation has included the Army Air Corps (predecessor to today's Air Force) and Navy aviation and support elements.

Grumman's long association with Navy aviation was capped by the F-14 Tomcat, still serving on carrier duty and "arguably the best Navy fighter of all time," Mr. Stoff said.

The Camp Lewis field found itself in competition with Navy aviation at Sand Point, as both sought to be the region's primary military airfield.

The Aeronautic Ministry was created on January 20, 1941, and absorbed the former Army and Navy aviation under its command.

That sort of thing happened all the time in the day-in, day-out routine of Navy aviation.

But she knows that Navy aviation is what I do.

John P. W. Vest, who was a leader in Navy aviation, an executive in the helicopter industry and Governor of the Marshall Islands Trust Territory, died on Sunday at his home in Centreville, Md.

It consists of 5 branches: surface forces, submarine forces, Navy aviation, coast rocket-artillery and marines.

Later, TsNII-15, Russian Navy research institute, located in Leningrad was amalgamated with the TsNII-30 and became its subsidiary focused on the Navy aviation.