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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.
It moved to the United Kingdom as the 14th Fighter Group in the summer of 1942 and was the first fighter unit to ferry its own aircraft across the Atlantic. After combat training with the Royal Air Force , the group moved to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations following Operation Torch , the North Africa invasion.
It operates the T-6 Texan II aircraft conducting flight training ... Redesignated 89th Fighter Squadron, ... Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed ...
It operates Beechcraft T-6 Texan II aircraft conducting flight training. The squadron was first established as the 37th Pursuit Squadron and activated in January 1941. As the 37th Fighter Squadron it saw combat during World War II in the Mediterranean and European Theaters, and was awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation for action over Austria ...
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556. McMullen, Richard F. (1964) "The Fighter Interceptor Force 1962-1964" ADC Historical Study No. 27, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, CO (Confidential, declassified 22 March 2000)
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.
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
An original, World War II-era T-6A Texan aircraft, right, with the new T-6 Texan II at Randolph AFB, Texas, in 2007. The Texan failed to qualify for the Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance program, because the USAF mailed the exclusion notice to the wrong address, leaving the company with no time to protest the decision. [9]