Naval Air Station Kingsville

 

Naval Air Station Kingsville is one of the U.S. Navy’s premier locations for jet aviation training. The naval air station’s primary mission is to train Student Naval Aviators for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps and tactical jet pilots for other select NATO and Allied countries. To accomplish its mission, NAS Kingsville is home to Training Air Wing Two and several tenant commands, military as well as civilian, with a total complement of approximately 300 officers, 200 enlisted, 350 civilian personnel, and 625 contract maintenance personnel. The wing was the first in the Navy to operate the Boeing T-45 Goshawk aircraft, providing a single carrier-capable aircraft to replace the North American Rockwell T-2 Buckeye and the McDonnell Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk II in the Navy's strike pilot training pipeline. Originally equipped with the T-45A model of the Goshawk, the wing began accepting new production T-45C model aircraft in 2005, which replaces the earlier T-45A aircraft's analog cockpit with a digital or "glass" cockpit similar to what students will find when they transition to operational fleet combat aircraft. All T-45A aircraft at NAS Kingsville are slated to be retrofitted and upgraded to a T-45C configuration under the T-45 Required Avionics Modernization Program (T-45 RAMP), with a select number of RAMP modified aircraft slated for transfer to Training Air Wing SIX at NAS Pensacola, Florida in support of Student Naval Flight Officer training under the Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) program.

NAS Kingsville is home to the U.S. Army Reserve 812th Quartermaster Company.^[2]

The NAS Kingsville Operations Department operates the airfield and provides services to support operations of activity, tenant, and transiting aircraft; provides firefighting functions, both structural fire and rescue; provides air traffic control; operates the air terminal; schedules administrative and proficiency flights; repairs and maintains station ground electronics equipment; stores, maintains, and issues assigned ordnance and munitions; operates firing ranges; operates aerial targets, bombing ranges, and auxiliary landing fields. NAS Kingsville also has both Military and Civilian security which man the entry control points and conduct vehicle inspections and patrols.

• Training Air Wing Two
  • Training Squadron 21 (VT-21) "Fighting Redhawks"
  • Training Squadron 22 (VT-22) "Golden Eagles"
• Naval Branch Health Clinic Kingsville
• Contract Employers included L-3 Vertex, Fidelity Technologies, and Rolls-Royce
• CNATRA Detachment
• U.S. Army Reserve 812th Quartermaster Company

• 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, F Company (MEDEVAC)
• Training Squadron Twenty Three (VT23)"Professionals"

• List of T-45 Goshawk losses
• List of United States Navy airfields

• Naval Air Station Kingsville (official site)
• FAA Airport Form 5010 for NQI PDF
• Naval Air Station Kingsville GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 2006-10-27
• KNQI Kingsville Naval Air Station AirNav.com Retrieved 2006-10-27

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Air Station Kingsville.

• Official website
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective November 28, 2024
• Resources for this U.S. military airport:
  • FAA airport information for NQI
  • AirNav airport information for KNQI
  • ASN accident history for NQI
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KNQI