T-34 Mentor / NavyBeechcraft T 34B Mentor model. The first flight of the T 34 was on December 2, 1948, by Beechcraft test pilot Vern Carstens. The United States Air Force ordered three test aircraft, which were given the designation YT 34. A long competition followed to determine a new trainer, and in 1953 the Air Force put the T 34 into service as the T 34A Mentor, while the United States Navy followed in May 1955 with the T 34B. T 34A production ran from 1953 to

While C-130 Hercules aircraft out of Howard ferried most of the supplies into Soto Cano Air Base

with no beacon search or constant wave illuminator being provided for Sparrow or Falcon missile launches

With an impressive arsenal including oblique firing cannons

and a ferry range of 2

and escort fighter

The P-51D Mustang was designed as the NA-73 in 1940 at Britain's request

The affordable J3 Cub became a runaway sales success and several thousand were sold before the USA's entry into WW2 saw all J3 production built for the US Army as the L4

Mexicana Boeing 767 airplane model

This huge class of ships performed every kind of duty in every theatre of WWII and - after the war - served with many nations including the United States

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt airplane model

The Comanche is intended to replace the current fleet of AH-1 and OH-58 helicopters in all air cavalry troops and light division attack helicopter battalions

which are delivered via two unpressurised 6-buoy rotary launchers and two pressurised singleshot launchers