The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan was a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a Counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.

The T-28 had the look, feel, sound, and power of early World War II fighters, something the Navy desired it to have when it entered training service mid-century. Powerful but predictable, the...

The T28TrojanFoundation provides a detailed history of the T-28 aircraft and the many people involved with it from its North American Aviation origins, production, use as a military trainer to its extensive warbird service and now civilian use.

Beginning in 1962 the USAF modified more than 200 T-28As as tactical fighter-bombers for counterinsurgency warfare. Equipped with 1,425-hp engines, these airplanes (redesignated the T-28D "Nomad") were effective weapons for close air …

Nov 30, 1999 · The North American T-28 was the first U.S. military trainer to be outfitted with tricycle landing gear. It was designed for the U.S. Air Force as a replacement for the AT-6 as an advanced trainer. Production began in 1950 and was discontinued eight years later.

The T-28's service career, though long, was finally ended by the introduction of the T-34 turboprop trainer, but the T-28 lives on as one of the most popular piston-powered warbirds in the USA, as well as several other countries.

North American Aviation engineers, after WWII, began designing a new aircraft to replace the AT-6. The XT-28 made its first test flight on September 26, 1949. The U.S. Air Force adopt-ed this aircraft as its primary, or initial pilot training air-craft, referring to it as the T-28A Trojan, in 1950.

The North American T-28 Trojan was manufactured by North American Aviation in the early 1950s. It was mainly a trainer for the Air Force and the Navy. It saw action in the Vietnam as a counterinsurgency aircraft.

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