The Snapshots in Time Collection
Pilot Flight Logbook Page, Wayne E. Bancroft, SNJ-4 Carrier Qualification Entries, October 1949
This page from Wayne E. Bancroft's personal Navy flight logbook records his training flights in the SNJ-4 advanced trainer during October 1949, including a series of carrier landings and catapult launches performed as part of his carrier qualification. Bancroft, who would go on to serve as a naval aviator during the Korean War, logged nearly 100 hours of flight time by this point in his career. Personal logbooks like this offer an intimate, day-by-day record of the training that shaped America's Cold War-era naval aviators. Project: 218109