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North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, the XB-70 bomber, the B-1 Lancer, the Apollo command and service module, the second stage of the Saturn V ...
North American F-82 Twin Mustang; North American F-86 Sabre; North American F-86D Sabre; North American YF-93; North American F-100 Super Sabre; List of F-100 units of the United States Air Force; North American F-107; North American XF-108 Rapier; North American FJ-1 Fury; North American FJ-2/-3 Fury; North American FJ-4 Fury; North American ...
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. [2] Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in every theater of World War II , and after the war ended, many remained in service, operating ...
The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.
North American NJ-1 - Trainer; North American PBJ Mitchell - Medium/anti-ship bomber; North American SNJ - Trainer; North American ETF-51D - Fighter; Northrop BT-1 - Dive bomber (withdrawn 1944) Piper LNP - Training glider; Piper NE - Observation/liaison aircraft; Pratt-Read LNE - Training glider; Ryan FR Fireball - Carrier-based mixed ...
The aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation (NAA) was one of a large number of companies that sought to harness these recent innovations in developing a new generation of aircraft. During early 1954, the company embarked on a private study into a conceptual carrier-based , long-range, all-weather strike bomber, that would be capable of ...
List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) List of United States Army aircraft designations (1956–1962) List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations; List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations; List of undesignated military aircraft of the United States
The North American B-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured by aircraft company North American Aviation.It has the distinction of being the first operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as the first multiengine jet bomber to be refueled in midair.