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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.
Similar to Harvard I but with BC-1 wing center section, metal-covered fuselage and late T-6 type wing, 16 built. SNJ-2 Same as SNJ-1 but with a R-1340-56 engine and changes to carburetor and oil cooler scoops, 61 built. SNJ-3 Same as AT-6A, 270 built and 296 transferred from USAAC. SNJ-3C
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, a 2000's era single-engine turboprop trainer aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company; Automobiles. Ford Ranger (T6), post-2011 models;
Radial engine: National origin: United States Manufacturer Pratt & Whitney: First run 29 December 1925 Major applications: Soko 522 Boeing P-26 Peashooter de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter North American T-6 Texan Sikorsky H-19 Junkers Ju 52: Produced 1926– Number built: 34,966 Developed into: Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior
It operates T-1 Jayhawk, T-6 Texan II, and T-38 Talon aircraft conducting flight training. The 96th flew combat in the European Theater of Operations and the Mediterranean Theater of Operations between 25 December 1942 and 3 May 1945. It flew fighter escort and air defense from 1947 to 1949 and air defense from 1951 to 1957.
North American T-6 Texan engine, cowling, propeller, undercarriage wheels and cockpit controls; Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor wings; North American L-17 Navion wheel used as the P-1's tailwheel; Tallmantz-designed and constructed fuselage, wing roots and skids
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.