@ Naval Air Facility El Centro, CA
November 2017
This would be my first El Centro trip and first experience seeing the Goshawk airborne. Here is a T-45 just touching down after another training flight. The bright orange areas on the aircraft aid visibility should the aircraft go down in terrain. This is the squadron’s “color bird”, usually each squadron will have one aircraft painted in the squadron colors. Based on the British Aerospace Hawk, the T-45 has been used by the United States Navy as an aircraft carrier-capable trainer since 1991. 221 aircraft were delivered with production ending in 2009. Nikon D500 w/18-200mm.
