The Air Barons were an aerobatics team of the United States Navy, which was active from 1958 to 1971.
The team was initially equipped with Grumman F9F-6 Cougars.
The Air Barons were the aerobatics team of the Naval Air Reserve and thus the second aerobatic team of the US Navy along with the Blue Angels.
In contrast to the Blue Angels, which also flew the A-4 at the same time, the Air Barons always flew with an additional tank under each wing, while the Blue Angels used external transfer tanks only for transfer flights and carried out the actual flight demonstrations completely without external loads.
The Air Barons aerobatic team flew 66 official flight demonstrations during its existence.