North American Aviation promotional photos

billtate · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:44 pm

I got these old pictures from a friend who use to work with North American Aviation. I thought WIX might enjoy looking through them.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:11 pm

Thanks Bill! Is #7 the production line for T-6G conversions?

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7821

Thx for posting Bill, neat stuff. Interesting as the Mustang looks familiar in your second to last image ...

The rest from the LIFE series here. Great stuff as well.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/22 ... 6954b.html

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JohnB · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:16 pm

Neat shots of the conversion of old T-6s to "G" configuration.
Was the work done at Columbus?

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:24 pm

Beautiful stuff! thanks for posting it!

John Kerr · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:55 pm

No the mustang is Not Sharp Shooter, 44-71936, enroute or arriving at the Air Force Museum. It is N5441V, Spam Can, 45-11582. You can seee span can on fuseladge and 582 on gear door legs.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7821

I figured it wasn't the same mustang, but you can't deny there are similarities in that paint scheme.

billtate · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:39 pm

I was unable to find out the location of the T-6 production line picture. The person I got the photos from was living in Mississippi and Texas during the time he received the pictures. Sorry, I can not be of more help.
Cheers

Rauhbatz · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:44 pm

Im pretty sure w the OV 10s and some of the other aircraft that the majority of these are from right down the road from me in Columbus.

The T6 pics are a mystery to me as I dont think NAA did anything w those model aircraft here. But some learned colleague will likley come up a the answer.

T-28mike · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:46 am

The T-6 "line" is the Columbus modification line (West side of Columbus plant Formerly Million-Air, Now Odyssey), later used for the first batch of T-28 D's:

Excerpt from a North American proposed draft article related to the T-28 D program, 1965

"In the early 1950's the Columbus division conducted an "extensive re-manufacturing" program, in which 600 or so T-6 Air Force trainers received a complete overhauling and were largely rebuilt. Most of these performed an important mission as ground target spotters and fighter directors during the Korean conflict."

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:03 pm

Neat stuff. Love the Bronco. Never seen the jet pack before, I'm assuming its a test aircraft.

Rauhbatz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:47 pm

Thanks for the tips about the T-6 line. Go figure that is where Cheryl and the nice folks at Odessey allow us to store our P-51 there during the summer when we fly around Ohio...no wonder it looked happy as it was in a place where there used to be a lot of old friends!

T-28mike · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:40 am

The pic with the Savages and t-6's is taken at the East end of the Eastern building (original Curtiss factory), looking West.

Invader26 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:56 am **Posts:** 843

The German Air Force target tug variant OV-10B(Z) was equipped with an additional General Electric J85-GE-4 turbojet engine (18ea produced).

M.P. · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:17 pm

The pictures show the OV-10BZ prototype with GE J-85 Jetpack and German registration D-9545. Today this plane is preserved in a German Museum at Hermeskeil:
http://www.germanwing.de/status.htm

The GE J-85 Jetpack was not used for long time:
http://www.germanwing.de/Targettug.htm

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