Need Help - Mexican AT6

[Sully]

A coworker is looking for some information concerning his grandfathers aircraft. This is the info sent. I don't do photobucket but will provide a picture if someone else would like to post it.

Any help is appreciated.

"Sully,

Attached are pictures of my grandfather’s AT-6.

All I know about it is that he bought it in Phoenix sometime in the 1950’s. He took it to Chihuahua, Mexico and received registration number XB-CIN. The last I know is that he sold it (I’m guessing in the 1970’s) it to another local pilot who crashed it during a stunt."

His grandfather flew Vegas for Francisco Sarabia I believe.

Thanks,
Sully

Last edited by Sully on Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Jack Cook]

send it

[Jack Cook]

[Sully]

Thanks Jack, I guess I'm going to have open a photobucket account someday soon.

Sully

[MacHarvard]

Hi Sully. I'm afraid I can't help much with figuring out which individual aircraft this is, but at least I can tell you exactly what it is. It is one of 750 ex-AT-6C and D models that underwent a remanufacturing process, under NAA charge number NA-168. The 'new' aircraft received serials 49-2897/-3537 and 50-1277/-1326 as T-6Gs, and 49-3538/-3596 as LT-6Gs.

The remanufacturing process, which took place at Downey, Ca. included a square tipped prop and spinner, revised cockpit layout, steerable tailwheel, increased fuel (15 gal tank in each outer wing panel), revised landing gear, improved vision canopies, radio mods (multi channel VHF, UHF, ADF receiver). The first LT-6G (49-3538) was factory reconfigured as the sole FT-6G COIN demonstrator.

The LT-6Gs became famous as mounts for the Mosquitoes in the Korean conflict, armed with bombs, rockets and underwing gun pods. A lot of these armaments were field mods.

cheers
Doug

Just to avoid (create?) confusion, there were other groups of aircraft remanufactured to T-6Gs, but this original group is the only one that got the blade and DF pair that appears on your aircraft.

[Sully]

Doug,

Thanks, we know more now than we did.

I have posted this in the Vintage Aviation Forum now.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=26051

Thanks again, WIXers are great.
Sully