Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6 or ANTARCTIC DEVRON SIX, commonly referred to by its nickname, The Puckered Penguins) was a United States Navy...
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Squadron Six (First designated VX-6, then VXE-6 from 1969) originally operated the LC-130 aircraft. Initially, VXE-6 was home based at the Naval Air Station...
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Until the late 1990s, the base hosted Antarctic Development Squadron SIX (VXE-6), the squadron of LC-130s equipped to land on ice in Antarctica, to supply...
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and Evaluation Squadrons. Their designations were changed to VXE-1, VXE-4, VXE-5 and VXE-6. Their tail codes of these squadrons were changed to JA, JF...
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engineer J. Marin. February 15, 1971: USN LC-130F BuNo 148318, c/n 3562, of VXE-6, named "City of Christchurch", hit snow wall while taxiing at McMurdo, Antarctica...
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the U.S. Navy's Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6). The 109th continued to augment VXE-6's Antarctic flying operations for the next eight years...
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letter C) by the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, and its Squadron VXE-6, which provided logistical support to the field teams. In January and November...
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with VQ-4, July 1975 – July 1988; modified to TC-130Q, ops with VR-22, VXE-6; to Tinker AFB with VQ-3, VQ-4, "hack" aircraft as of December 1995. On...
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discovered on 5 November 1967, in the course of a United States Navy Squadron VXE-6 flight over the coast in LC-130 aircraft, and was plotted by the United...
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Until the late 1990s, the base hosted Antarctic Development Squadron SIX (VXE-6), the squadron of LC-130s equipped to land on ice in Antarctica, to supply...
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built. HUS-1L Seahorse Four HUS-1s converted for Antarctic operations with VXE-6, re-designated LH-34D in 1962. HUS-1Z Seahorse Seven HUS-1s fitted with...
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Surgeon and member of the para-rescue team of United States Navy Squadron VXE-6 during Operation Deep Freeze 1969 and 1970. Eastern features include, from...
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Names after Lieutenant Commander W.F. Ferrell, U.S. Navy, a pilot with the VXE-6 detachment at Darwin Glacier Field Camp in the 1978–79 field season. "Ferrell...
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Commanding Officer, United States Navy Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6), from May 1984 to May 1985; Commanding Officer, NSFA, 1987-89; Naval Officer...
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List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons (section VXE and VXN: Antarctic Development (VXE) and Oceanographic Development (VXN) squadrons)
No active squadron has carried the VXE designation since 1999, though it continues to designate the inactive VXE-6. By the late 1950s, Carrier Airborne...
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Assigned to Assigned on Notes VX-6 Re-designated VXE-6, Antarctic Deployment Squadron 6 1957 Disestablished in March 1999....
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Squadron patch for the Navy Antarctic Development Squadron SIX (VXE-6), known as the Puckered Penguins....
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cargo and personnel. The 1998–1999 summer season was the last year that VXE-6 with its Lockheed LC-130s serviced the U.S. Antarctic Program. Beginning...
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of the cartographic aerial mapping crew in LC-130 aircraft of Squadron VXE-6, 1968-69. Headland 2009, p. 577. Antarctica Ultra-Prominences Peaklist....
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Aviation Machinist's Mate William D. Decker, United States Navy, of Squadron VXE-6, who died at McMurdo Station on October 11, 1971. 77°27′56″S 162°49′30″E...
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delivery systems. In subsequent years, Antarctic Development Squadron SIX (VXE-6) of the U.S. Navy took over support of the scientific stations by means...
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Commander Vernon W. Peters, United States Navy, Commanding Officer of Squadron VXE-6 in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze, 1974. 70°35′S 62°45′W / 70...
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Dykeman, U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer of Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6) from May 1981 to May 1982. "Dykeman Point". Geographic Names Information...
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Commander Robert T. (Beez) Bohner, U.S. Navy, helicopter pilot, Squadron VXE-6, who flew Antarctic missions from 1986; was liaison with the National Science...
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also the off-season home of Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VX-6, later VXE-6) during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, operating the LC-47 Skytrain, LP-2J...
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by the USGS field team in Taylor Valley from United States Navy Squadron VXE-6 and its twin engine UH-1N "Huey" helicopters. 77°35′S 163°19′E / 77.583°S...
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Lieutenant Commander Donald A. Gilliamsen, U.S. Navy, aircraft pilot, Squadron VXE-6, Operation Deep Freeze, 1969 and 1970. Copland Peak Duffy Peak Hageman Peak...
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Commander Matthew J. Radigan, U.S. Navy. Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy Squadron VXE-6, from May 1983 to May 1984. Ablation Point Kosar Point Mazza Point This...
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this area aboard a Super Constellation aircraft crewed by the U.S. Navy VXE-6 Squadron. The ice rise was first mapped from these photos by the USGS. The...
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Joseph Tuttell, a Naval Aviator in Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6). List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands "Heald Island". Geographic...
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