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Re: Curtiss F6C-3 coded 4-J-3
Leonard
I am no US Navy expert so I can only state what others do, and 'others' do use Hampton Roads (even Bill Larkins does in many places).
During the 1920s the J letter certainly did mean transport. The Navy used the designation JA and JR for their Super Universal and Trimotor aircraft.
If you check Bill Larkins' US Navy aircraft book, he clearly states Transportation Squadron One (VJ-1) in 1926. Now heavier transporation by air obviously took some time for US Navy to hang on to, so these VJ squadrons established at this time seems to have used a large number of different aircraft, many not readily associated with transports at all.
But if you excuse me saying so, we are diverging away from the topic, which unit used the 4-J-x code during the early 1930s. Since we agree on there was no VJ-4 established at this point, the question posed by Phil is still not solved, even if my money right now is with NAS Hampton Roads/Norfolk.
Cheers
Stig
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