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Here are a few old photos of T-50's by various people. If you have any old photos of the T-50 military or civilian, we'd like to see them.
At Mather AAF on May 9, 1942. The plane is from Stockton AAF (Stockton Army Air Field) whose field letter in the Training Command was "K".
In flight over Martinez, California, on March 16, 1947.
Photo(s) contributed by: Bill Larkins [wtl@earthlink.net] Thanks for the contribution !
This picture came from Jim Fife, who obtained it at some base when he was flying in the US Air Force. Jim also is a retired Northwest Airlines pilot. He started with Northwest as an A&P and went on to be a flight engineer, ending up in the left seat of jet airliners. In Korea he flew Beavers. Jim has been working on our Aeronca L-3 restoration project.
Here's a picture,courtesy of Jim Fife. It's an AT-9 used for the same purposes as the Bamboo Bomber. It was built by Curtiss, I believe. According to the history of the Altus AAF base, the AT-9 required a great deal more maintenance and was taken out of service because of landing gear and other problems. The instructors and students preferred it to the Cessna twin, because it was more of a challenge to fly.
This is the first civilian T-50 at the Denver airport, taken in 1940 by Bob Taylor of the Antique Airplane Association, at Ottumwa, Iowa. Bob was sixteen at the time.
Another
picture from Bob Taylor, of the Antique Airplane Museum, a
few years older, but still young. This time he is standing next to a UC-78
in Panama with the 6th Air Force, 24th Fighter Squadron.
Bob writes, "...Note the nose art "Bubbles". I did not
work on the UC-78's while in the 6th. but did some trips around Panama
in this one, including search and rescue trips, as we lost several pilots
when we converted toP-38's. I did work on AT-8's, AT-17's and UC-78's
while in the States at Williams Field in 1942 and 1943."
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