NORTH AMERICAN T-28D TROJAN

Description

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a Counter-insurgency (COIN) aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War. T-28s were also used by the CIA in the former Belgian Congo during the 1960s. France used locally re-manufactured Trojans for close support missions in Algeria. The Philippines utilized T-28s (colloquially known as "Tora-toras") during a series of unsuccessful coup d’état during the 1980s, the aircraft were often deployed as dive bombers by rebel forces AeroVironment has modified and armored a T-28A to fly weather research for South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, funded by the National Science Foundation. T-28D version: 28A’s converted for the counter insurgency (COIN) role. Fitted with six underwing hardpoints. Total 393 converted - (Scale : 1/48e)