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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.
From August 1941 to August 1945, North American Aviation leased the government owned contractor-operated plant and produced 30,000 aircraft for the Navy and Army. The T-6 Texan was a single engine aircraft and the first aircraft manufactured on the reserve plant that was primarily used to train pilots in the U.S armed forces and Royal Air Force ...
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 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 96th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 340th Flying Training Group and is the reserve associate to the 47th Flying Training Wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. It operates T-1 Jayhawk, T-6 Texan II, and T-38 Talon aircraft conducting flight training.
Bikle T-6, a glider; North American T-6 Texan, a World War II-era single-engine advanced trainer aircraft; Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, a 2000's era single-engine turboprop trainer aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company
Supplied to Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and West Germany, 285 aircraft. KN-1 A single T-6F damaged in a crash during the Korean War that was rebuilt as a floatplane by the Republic of Korea Navy. [1] Bacon Super T-6 A single AT-6F converted in 1956 with tricycle gear, bubble canopy and tip tanks; no production followed. [2]
Powell then found a sale of surplus war planes in Texas. He and his brother-in-law and future business partner, Dallas E. Ortman, went to Texas and purchased a North American T-6 Texan trainer. Powell flew around the country purchasing more army surplus goods, then opened a makeshift store from a 150-foot-long (46 m) tent across the street from ...