The
North American NA-16 prototype would eventually become the T-6 Texan.
In US Navy designation, it was called the SNJ. The British called it
the Harvard. By the end of the 1950s, the US had retired all of it's
Texans from active service. In foreign service, the Texan trained
pilots well into the 1970s! Over 17,000 were made and today, about 350
are still flying. The T-6 was, and still is referred to as the "Pilot
Maker". The SNJ featured below (N96281) was made in 1976 and shows as a
"Harvard IIA". It is owned and operated by the CAF unit based at Cable.
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