His personal awards include two Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, two Air Medals, three Strike/Flight Air Medals, two Meritorious Service Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat V, three Navy Commendation Medals, and two Navy Achievement Medals. In April 1994 Captain Snodgrass became commodore of Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic based at NAS Oceana. When you hit submit you will be sent to Eventbrite to finish your registration. Dale Snort Snodgrass, a legend in Naval Aviation and the F-14 community was killed in. The rooms are very basic with most having 1 queen bed. Dale Snort Snodgrass was killed yesterday in a small plane crash. In April 1993 he began service in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as section head of OPNAV N88, Aviation Training Resources.Ī year later he was promoted to Captain (CAPT) and selected for a major command. Please indicate which nights you need and note any special requests in the comments. After serving as the executive officer of Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101) in 1988, he was selected for command of Fighter Squadron 33 (VF-33.
He was selected as the 1985 Fighter Pilot of the Year and 1986 Grumman Aerospace TOPCAT of the Year. Then Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Snodgrass was selected in 1983 to be the operations officer of the Atlantic Fleet adversary squadron (VF-43) at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia (NAS Oceana).
Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) at NAS Miramar, California and then served as a weapons training officer.Īs a Lieutenant (LT) he earned his Landing Signal Officer (LSO) qualification for all wing aircraft and was later selected as the Air Wing LSO for Carrier Air Wing (CVW) Eight. He was selected to attend and graduated from U.S. He began his military career in 1974, when the F-14 was a relatively new airplane. His experience spanned 26 years with over 4,900 hours of flying, the most in the history of Tomcat pilots. He completed his Navy flight training in December 1973 and was one of the first fighter pilots to fly the F-14 Tomcat. Dale Snort Snodgrass is considered one of the greatest pilots in the country’s history for good reason. His obituary: Dale attended the University of Minnesota as an NROTC Midshipman setting records as an All-American swimmer. His accomplishments as a Naval Aviator are legend. Those of us who knew him and flew with him knew ‘Snort as a magnificent leader, selfless teacher, and fearless pilot. He was rumored to have been grounded for the maneuver, but it was actually an approved demonstration conducted during the carrier's tiger cruise. Dale Snodgrass, one of the worlds most accomplished pilots perished in the crash of his single engine aircraft. Snodgrass performing the famous low level "banana pass" of USS America (CV-66) in 1988.
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