Col. Rohr wrote:
The T-6 is actually an AT-14
Close... The Noorduyn-built Harvard Mk IIb was known as the AT-16 on USAAF books as most of them were paid for through Lend-Lease funds.
The RAF still referred to them as the Harvard IIb though
This particular Harvard (FE788) was built by Noorduyn in Montreal for the RAF and was shipped directly to the UK.
She was used at Boscombe Down for 'flame-dampening trials' using a Hedgehog exhaust pipe. (hence the 'P' for prototype on the fuselage)
Anyone who has seen a Harvard/T-6/SNJ flying in the dark can attest to the blue flame from the exhaust, which over wartime England wouldn't have been the most welcome sight while sitting in the cockpit.
Interestingly, there is a Harvard currently painted in these markings (minus the 'P' and the Hedgehog exhaust) flying out of Biggin Hill.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/texanreg ... f3064.html
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