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Blue Angels Commence Winter Training

Navy Newsstand

1/8/2003 12:17:00 PM

From Blue Angels Public Affairs

NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, made its annual deployment to Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro, Calif., to prepare for the 2003 show season. The 10-week winter training concludes in early March after the team completes a minimum of 120 flights during a rigorous six-days-a-week, three-flights-per-day schedule.

The team performs its first public flight demonstration of 2003 at the El Centro base March 15 and will conclude the season Nov. 8 at Naval Air Station Pensacola. The Blue Angels will perform 70 shows at 34 locations throughout the United States and Canada during the 2003 season.

The team's 2003 schedule, released in December, is:

• March 15 NAF El Centro, Calif.
• March 22-23 Punta Gorda, Fla.
• March 29-30 Huntsville, Ala.
• April 5-6 Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
• April 12-13 Vidalia, Ga.
• April 26-27 Knoxville, Tenn.
• May 3-4 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C.
• May 10-11 Topeka, Kan.
• May 17-18 Millville, N.J.
• May 21 U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
• May 24-25 Naval Air Station Paxtuxent River, Md.
• May 31 Millington, Tenn.
• June 1 Millington, Tenn.
• June 7-8 Davenport, Iowa
• June 14-15 New Windsor, N.Y.
• June 21-22 La Crosse, Wisc.
• June 28-29 North Kingstown, R.I.
• July 5-6 Muskegon, Mich.
• July 11-12 Pensacola Beach, Fla.
• July 17-20 Dayton, Ohio
• July 26-27 Arco, Idaho
• Aug. 2-3 Seattle, Wash.
• Aug. 8-10 Abbotsford, Canada
• Aug. 16-17 Westfield, Mass.
• Aug. 30-31 Cleveland, Ohio
• Sept. 1 Cleveland, Ohio
• Sept. 6-7 Naval Air Station Oceana, Va.
• Sept. 13-14 Indianapolis, Ind.
• Sept. 20-21 Duluth, Minn.
• Sept. 27-28 Fort Worth-Alliance, Texas
• Oct. 4-5 Long Beach, Calif.
• Oct. 11-12 San Francisco, Calif.
• Oct. 18-19 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif.
• Oct. 25-26 Jacksonville Beach, Fla.
• Nov. 1-2 Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
• Nov. 7-8 Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.