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Hoping to divert the T-39 back on course, each station began hailing the plane on USAF frequencies and a Soviet-monitored international distress band. Repeated calls to the T-39 went unanswered. It appeared that the T-39's radio systems malfunctioned and the crew were unable to respond. [4] The T-39 crossed the border into East Germany.
Data from T-39 Sabreliner on Boeing History site General characteristics Crew: four–five Capacity: five–seven passengers Length: 44 ft 0 in (13.41 m) Wingspan: 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m) Height: 16 ft 0 in (4.88 m) Wing area: 342.1 sq ft (31.79 m 2) Empty weight: 9,257 lb (4,199 kg) Max takeoff weight: 17,760 lb (8,056 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney J60-P-3 turbojet, 3,000 lbf (13 kN ...
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North American T-39 Sabreliner – Rockwell Collins’ 1964 Sabreliner Model 50 (tail number N50CR) was acquired by Evergreen in 1976 and used for flight-test projects that helped shape modern commercial and military avionics. The aircraft was flown about 8,000 hours with more than 5,000 landings.
North American T-39 Sabreliner, an American jet trainer aircraft Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination.
This list of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) includes prototype, pre-production and operational type designations under the 1919 and 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation systems, which were used by the United States Air Force and its predecessors until the introduction of the unified United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system in 1962.
A McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0022, [39] of the 40th Flight Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, crashed in the Gulf of Mexico ~60 miles S of Panama City, Florida, while on a captive flight development test of a new air-to-air missile, killing test pilot Maj. James A. Duricy, assigned to the 40th Test ...
The Air Force also decided the administrative airlift fleet would become all jet, using North American T-39 Sabreliners, although the 459th also flew turboprop powered Beechcraft C-12 Hurons. In 1978, the administrative airlift squadrons transferred to the 375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing , and until 1991, it also flew aeromedical evacuation ...