Warplanes of the USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Beechcraft aircraft

Warplane Survivors USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Beechcraft

(NMUSAF Photos)

Beechcraft GB-2 (UC-43) Traveler/Staggerwing (Serial No. 44-76068), painted as 9139.  The aircraft on display in the NMUSAFwas donated by Maj. Richard River, USAF (Ret), of Chillicothe, Ohio.  It was flown to the museum in May 1974.  Procured by the Army during the Second Worlfd War, it was assigned to the Navy as a GB-2.  It is painted as a UC-43 assigned to the 8th Air Force in England in 1943.

(NMUSAF Photo)

Beechcraft C-45H Expeditor (Serial No. 41-27561), painted as (Serial No. 52-37493).

Beechcraft C-45H Expeditor (Serial No. 52-10893).

(NMUSAF Photo)

Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita (Serial No. 127193).  The museum placed this AT-10 on display in June 1997.

(Stahlkocher Photo)

Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan (Serial No. 42-37493), C/N 4086.  The AT-11 on display in the NMUSAF is one of 1,582 ordered by the USAAF between 1941 and 1945, 36 of which were modified as AT-11A navigation trainers.  It was donated to the museum by the Abrams Aerial Survey Corp., Lansing, Michigan, in 1969, and is painted to represent a trainer in service during the autumn of 1943.

(NMUSAF Photo)

Beechcraft VC-6A King Air (Serial No. 66-7943).

(NMUSAF Photos)

Beechcraft  QU-22B Pave Eagle (Serial No. 69-7699), C/N EB-7.  The NMUSAF's QU-22B went on display in 2002.

(NMUSAF Photos)

Beechcraft  T-34A Mentor (Serial No. 53-3310), TD-310, C/N G-71.  Suspended from the ceiling.  The Mentor was the standard USAF primary trainer until the introduction of the Cessna T-37 jet trainer in the late 1950s.  As they were replaced by T-37s, many T-34s were turned over to base aero clubs.  In all, the USAF acquired 450 T-34As.  350 were built in the United States and 100 more were produced in Canada under license.  The US Navy and 10 foreign militaries also used the T-34.

(Master Sgt. David Richards, USAF Photo)

Beechcraft T-6A Texan II (Serial No. 06-3851).  The Texan II is a single-engine, two-seat primary trainer designed to train Joint Primary Pilot Training, or JPPT, students in basic flying skills common to USAF and Navy pilots.  The trainer is phasing out the aging T-37 fleet throughout Air Education and Training Command.  The T-6A in the NMUSAF was assigned to the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and was received by the museum in 2010.

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