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Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
American plane used for military training / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the propeller-driven aircraft. For other uses, see T34 (disambiguation).
The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is an American propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza. The earlier versions of the T-34, dating from around the late 1940s to the 1950s, were piston-engined. These were eventually succeeded by the upgraded T-34C Turbo-Mentor, powered by a turboprop engine. The T-34 remains in service more than seven decades after it was first designed.
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T-34 Mentor | |
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A T-34B Mentor aircraft from Training Squadron 5 (VT-5) in 1976 | |
Role | Trainer aircraft |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Beechcraft |
First flight | 2 December 1948 |
Introduction | 1953 |
Primary users | United States Air Force United States Navy Japan Air Self-Defense Force Republic of China Air Force |
Produced | 1953–1959 1975–1990 |
Number built | 2,300+ |
Developed from | Beechcraft Bonanza |
Developed into | Fuji KM-2 |
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