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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.
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 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.
Beechcraft is an American brand of civil aviation and military aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, [1] headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military ...
Beechcraft Model 18: 1937 9,000+ Twin piston engine monoplane transport airplane Beechcraft Model 19 Musketeer Sport: 922 Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 22 N/A 0 Unbuilt bomber [1] Beechcraft Model 23: 1961 2,331 [a] Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model M-23N N/A 0
The winner was declared in 1995 and entered service a few years later as the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II. The program was partly a result of the cancelled Fairchild T-46 of the 1980s. In 1995, the selection of Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas, to develop and deliver the JPATS was made.
The 89th Flying Training Squadron, which was conducting training with the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II at Sheppard and had grown to over twice the size of a normal training squadron, was split to form the 459th. [5] The 459th conducts undergraduate flying training for Euro-NATO joint jet pilot candidates. [1] Its instructor pilots come from seven ...
It operates the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, and has trained instructor pilots at Randolph since 1972. The squadron was first organized in January 1941 as the 81st Bombardment Squadron . After training in the United States, it moved to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations , where it engaged in combat operations until 1944, earning a ...