U.S. Navy Confirms Lt. Charles Z. Walker Killed in F/A-18E Crash in Star Wars Canyon.
August 3, 2019 Tom Demerly
Lt. Charles Z. Walker was Embry Riddle Graduate, Strike Fighter School Grad.
The U.S. Navy has identified the pilot killed in the crash of a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in the Rainbow Canyon low flying training area as Lt. Charles Z. Walker, 33, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, the “Vigilantes†based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California.
Lt. Walker joined Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151 in February 2018, after the unit returned from a deployment on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), according to his official Navy biography and statements released on USNI.com.
Prior to his latest assignment with the VFA-151 “Vigilantesâ€, Lt. Walker attended the Strike Fighter Weapons School Pacific at NAS Lemoore. He had previously been a member of the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 195, the “Dambusters†as part of the Navy’s forward-deployed Carrier Air Wing 5 based at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.
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