Matthias Dorst wrote:
This AT-6 is in my eyes the most beautiful Texan worldwide. Eyecandy and in perfect shape.
Of course you follow all my walkaround efforts on my homepage, so you know of course that advanced trainer. Am I right ? Just for you to remember .....
Walkaround AT-6 D-FITEhere that beauty at home in the hangar
Very cool Matthias!
Not sure if you knew, but D-FITE was originally ordered by the French Armée de l'Air as an NA-76, but the entire order was taken over by the RAF and she became Harvard Mk II AJ586.
She initially served at No 31 SFTS at Kingston, Ontario, a Fleet Air Arm school.
I help look after her closest surviving sister (AJ583) at the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association in Tillsonburg.
Ironically, when AJ586 was surplussed in 1960, her first owner stored her (and a few dozen more Harvards) at Tillsonburg! She later went to Michigan to be restored.
Maybe you can put a bug in their ear to someday return her to her 'original' livery?
I just re-did the wing roundels, fin flash and underwing markings on AJ583 so if they need and references, let me know!
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Nice pics, like the detailed ones very much. It makes me very, very happy to see these old birds. Hats off for the dedicated people using a loads of time and money to keep them in the air.
