The Navy aircraft was heavily used during World War II at Barin Field in Foley to train young aviators. Bought from a private owner in New York, the flight took several days to complete.

While a price certainly can’t be put on the loss of the two aviators, the U.S. Navy operated just 160 of the pricey electronic warfare (EW) aircraft, which is no longer being produced.

Rainer. Wileman, 31, was a Sacramento area native, attending Granite Bay High School, before pursuing her goal of being a Naval aviator. She would become a commissioned officer in 2018 and receive ...

U.S. Naval officials, on Monday, identified the two crew members who died last week in a Navy jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington state, as two 31-year-old aviators from California.

Two women the U.S. Navy called role models and trailblazers were identified Monday as the aviators of an EA-18G Growler aircraft that crashed into a mountainside near Mount Rainier. Lt.

Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, a naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena N. Wileman, 31, a naval aviator, were killed during the Oct. 15 training flight when their EA-18G Growler crashed near Mount ...

The Sacramento naval aviator and crew member killed when their jet crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington state during training were remembered this week as trailblazers. Lt. Serena Wileman and Lt.

The U.S. Navy identified the two aviators killed in a crash in Washington last week as two "trailblazing" women. Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. "Miley" Evans, a Naval flight officer, and Lt. Serena N.