Photo by Capt. Aaron Moshier | Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 09.18.2015
Marines, sailors and civilian members of Marine Transport Squadron 1 gather for a unit photo before VMR-1 turns its HH-46 helicopters over to the Navy in September 2015. For decades, VMR-1 operated C-9B Skytrains and the smaller UC-35D Cessna Encores for worldwide transport missions, while providing search and rescue support to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing with HH-46D Seaknight helicopters,......
Photo by Capt. Aaron Moshier | Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 08.28.2015
A flight of four HH-46D Seaknight helicopters make one of their final formation flights over North Carolina's Outer Banks in August 2015, weeks before the Marine Corps turned the aircraft over to the Navy as the Corps' ended its search and rescue mission. The helicopters were a familiar sight in Eastern North Carolina skies for decades as Marine Transport Squadron 1 conducted SAR and medical......
Photo by Capt. Aaron Moshier | Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 03.17.2012
A C-9B Skytrain lifts off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., in March 2012, outbound on one of its worldwide transport missions in support of DOD. The C-9 is one of three aircraft types that have been operated by Marine Transport Squadron 1 for the past several decades, and will be the only type aircraft of the three to move with the squadron when it transfers to its new base......
Photo by Capt. Aaron Moshier | Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 03.02.2011
A UC-35D wings along over the North Carolina countryside during a maintenance flight in March 2011. The UC-35 is one of several aircraft operated by Marine Transport Squadron 1 in recent years in support of its worldwide transport missions. In late December 2017, VMR-1 will transfer from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., to its new base of operations in Fort Worth, Texas, under......
