{"id":13,"date":"2011-12-27T16:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.15.223.162\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2018-02-07T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:27:15","slug":"north-american-snj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/666903.nextdoorhk.tech\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"North American SNJ\/T-6 Texan (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The North American SNJ\/T-6 Texan<\/strong>\u00a0is an advanced trainer developed in 1935, which has been used by forces from sixty countries. \u00a0The U.S. Navy designated it the SNJ, and in the British Commonwealth countries it is known as the Harvard. \u00a0The distinctive Texan triangular rudder was added after several model designation changes. Approximately one-third of the total produced (5,035 of 15,495) were delivered to the U.S. Navy.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In 1937 Mitsubushi purchased two original prototypes (NA-16) for demonstrators and for research into licensing for mass production. \u00a0However, they produced an aircraft that bore very little resemblance to the prototype. \u00a0Their aircraft(allied code name Oak<\/em>) \u00a0were used in small numbers by the Imperial Japanese Navy from about 1942. \u00a0The Japanese Air Self Defense Force did operate Texans after World War II.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0While the T-6 was designed as an advanced trainer, it has seen it’s share of combat. \u00a0It was used by U.S. forces in Korea and Vietnam as a forward air control aircraft; by the RAF in Kenya; France in Algeria; Portugal during the Portuguese Colonial War; Spain during the Ifni War; and by Pakistan in their 1971 war as a night ground support aircraft.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The T-6 remains a popular warbird and has made appearances in numerous movies, in disguise, as a Mitsubishi Zero (Tora! Tora! Tora!<\/em> and The Final Countdown<\/em>) and as a Republic P-47 (A Bridge Too Far<\/em>).<\/h3>\n
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