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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.
Harvard IIA (RAF & Commonwealth) AT-6C, many with wooden rear fuselages when first delivered. Harvard IIA (RCAF) 'Armed' Harvard II - Any RCAF Harvard II or IIB fitted with wing guns, rockets or bombs. Harvard IIB Noorduyn built Mk.IIs, some to US orders as AT-16s for lend-lease. Transfers back from the USAAF (1800) and 757 built. Harvard T.T. IIB
The Model 3000/T-6 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with enclosed tandem seating for two. It is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop engine in tractor configuration with an aluminum, 97-inch (8.1 ft; 2.5 m), four-blade, constant-speed, variable pitch, non-reversing, feathering propeller assembly and has retractable tricycle landing gear.
The RCAF Harvard Mk. II, a variant of the North American T-6 Texan, was a World War II era military trainer numbered 3309. It was piloted by Acting Pilot Officer Thomas Andrew Thorrat, 22 years old from Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, a student pilot with 170 total flying hours logged. [2]
Brian Smith, President and CEO of the Tuskegee Airmen Historic Museum, stands for a photo on a T6 Texan in a hanger at the Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.
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 ...
The instructor pilot was in a T-6A Texan II at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, when the seat activated during ground operations on Monday. ... In 2022, the T-6 fleet and hundreds ...
The T-6 has a variety of names during its time of operation. The U.S Army Air Corps and Air Force referred to the plane as the AT-6 while the U.S Navy, the SNJ, and British Commonwealth air forces called it the Harvard. In 1948, the plane was re-designated as the T-6 Texan and a total of 15,495 aircraft were built.