Carrier onboard delivery
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Carrier onboard delivery is the use of carrier-based aircraft to transport personnel, mail, supplies and high-priority cargo such as replacement parts, from shore bases to an aircraft carrier at sea.
USS George Washington (CVN-73) crew unload mail from two C-2A Greyhounds in 2011
A Gannet COD.4 from HMS Victorious (R38) aboard USS Bennington in 1965
A C-1A Trader in 1987
US-3A of VRC-50 in 1987
Grumman C-2 Greyhound
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The Grumman C-2 Greyhound is a retired twin-engine, high-wing aircraft designed to carry supplies, mail and passengers to and from aircraft carriers of the United States Navy. Its primary mission was
Carrier onboard delivery
…aircraft carrier at sea. Several types of aircraft, including utility helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft, have been used by navies in the COD role. The Grumman C-2 Greyhound has been the United States Navy's primary fixed-wing aircraft for COD operations since the mid-1960s. Early United States Navy (USN) recognition of…
A U.S. Navy C-2A(R) Greyhound of fleet logistics support squadron VRC-40 Rawhides
A C-2A taxis prior to takeoff on a flight to USS John F. Kennedy in February 1984. This was the first Greyhound delivered in 1966.
A VRC-40 C-2A(R) after SLEP on USS Carl Vinson, July 2009
A C-2 Greyhound launches from a carrier at sea