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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.
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.
North American AT-6A (Charge Number NA-78) in flight AT-6 Texan Advanced Trainer - same as BC-1A with minor changes, powered by a 600hp R-1340-47 and armed with forward-firing 0.3in machine gun, nine original started as BC-1As and 85 built.
North American SNJ/T-6 Texan (1935) Piper J-3 Cub (Flying farmer act) (1938) Piper PA-18 Super Cub (1949) Pitts Special (Homebuilt - 1944) Pitts Model 12 (Homebuilt - 1996) Pitts S-2 in low level sideways flight. Rans S-9 Chaos (Homebuilt - 1986) Rans S-10 Sakota (Homebuilt - 1988) Rans S-16 Shekari (Homebuilt - 1994) Reflex Lightning Bug ...
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 ...
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.
The Bacon Super T-6 was a North American AT-6F Texan that was modified during the mid 1950s by the Erle L. Bacon Corporation in an attempt to interest foreign air forces in an upgrade for their T-6 fleets. The aircraft did not receive sufficient interest for production, and only the single conversion was produced.
Navy T-6B Texan IIs belonging to Training Air Wing 5 out of NAS Whiting Field. In 1988, the United States Navy (USN) and the United States Air Force (USAF) were at a unique moment in history; they reached a point where they could work together, and provide a cost-effective solution to pilot production, specifically primary training.