“Fighting Renegades” Lineage
Mads captures the lineage of the Fighting Renegades of VF-24 in a beautiful overwater formation featuring all of the aircraft flown by the squadron; FJ-3 Fury, F-8E Crusader, F-8J Crusader, and F-14A Tomcat
Description
Originally established as VF-211 in June 1955 flying the FJ-3 Fury, it was redesignated VF-24 on 9 March 1959 and flew F-8 Crusaders throughout the Vietnam War and transitioned to the F-14 Tomcat in 1975. The squadron accomplished many feats during its history. Scoring 5 MiG kills early on in the Vietnam war, it became one of the first “ace” squadrons, held a record of 3 years of “fod free” (the only f-14 sqdn. to do so), 20,500 mishap free flight hours while maintaining 97 consecutive days of full mission capable aircraft, and was also the first F-14 squadron to drop air-to-ground ordnance at NAS Fallon. By the time June of 1991 came around “The Red Checkertails” as they had become known had surpassed nine years flown and amassed 36,000 flight hours without incident. The “Fighting Renegades” aka “Red Checkertails” of VF-24 ended it’s storied career and disestablished on 31 August 1996. Here Mads captures the lineage of the Fighting Renegades of VF-24 in a beautiful overwater formation featuring all of the aircraft flown by the squadron.
