The Navy’s Ultimate Piston-Engine Fighter: An Investigation of a Submerged Experimental Bearcat

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This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

As a continuation of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Patuxent River) Aircraft Survey, this paper will focus on the study of a submerged aircraft which may represent the first F8F Bearcat. Naval History and Heritage Command is continuing to research potential losses within the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding waters in order to better manage the U.S. Navy's sunken and terrestrial military craft. Many of the aircraft wreck sites that may lay submerged within the waters surrounding NAS Patuxent River represent historical milestones for the Navy and aviation as a whole. The NAS Patuxent River Aircraft Survey also involves Navy interchangeability, non-profit partnership, training ops, and serves as a pilot study for possible future regional submerged Naval aircraft studies around the United States. 

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites

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