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The Stinson L-5 Sentinel is a World War II-era liaison aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), U.S. Army Ground Forces, U.S. Marine Corps and the British Royal Air Force. It was produced by the Stinson Division of the Vultee Aircraft Company (Consolidated-Vultee from mid-1943).
L-5 Sentinel, as flown by the squadron In February 1944, the squadron departed the United States for the China-Burma-India Theater , arriving at Ledo Airfield , India in April. [ 1 ] From August 1944 until May 1945, Tenth Air Force created the 1st Liaison Group, a provisional unit that included the 5th, along with the 19th , 71st and 115th ...
The 158th Liaison Squadron was activated in March 1944 at Raleigh-Durham Army Air Field, North Carolina and primarily equipped with Stinson L-5 Sentinels, although it flew a number of other aircraft. Its initial mission was to conduct tactical training and indoctrination for field operations of liaison units and to act as a Replacement Training ...
The 10A was the last of the series, but the first to be called "Voyager", a name that was retained for the post-war Stinson 108. [1] Six Model 10s were evaluated by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) as the YO-54. The unsuccessful tests led Stinson to design an all-new aircraft designated Model 76, later known as the L-5 Sentinel. [1]
During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen Stinson L-5 Sentinel aircraft in short 30-minute flights (December 10–25, 1944) delivering supplies (including a 300-bed hospital) to the 6,000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.
Stinson L-5 Sentinel; U. Stinson Model R; V. Stinson L-1 Vigilant; Stinson Voyager This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 03:14 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Byron Stinson has always been a man of strong faith. And recently that faith came into play for a mission. Jewish faith leaders he knew needed a red heifer to replicate a ceremony depicted in the ...
LST 776, LST 393, and LST 325 were outfitted with Brodie landing systems.; The RAF used an L-5 for testing the Brodie system in India.; One type of light aircraft which used the system was the Stinson L-5 Sentinel, an example of which is displayed in Brodie configuration at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center museum in Dulles, Virginia.