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Turbine T-28 for sale...would be cool to see in the air...

http://www.controller.com/listingsdetai ... 227723.htm

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sort of funny looking. Why didn't they make more than three?

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Readers digest version:

Contract not won. It was developed as a "cheap" COIN aircraft similar to the D model program. It was planned to use surplus A model airframes as a basis for conversion. However, the supply of quality A airframes was inadequate, and it was not as lucrative as building a new aircraft (like the OV-10) which NAA was also pushing at the time. Management (wisely) preferred a new production aircraft contract to a one time refurb contract that they may not even win the bid for ( RE: Fairchild and the later T-28 D-5 and D-10 airframe mod contracts).

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Bring her back to her birthplace! Love to see her in a hypothetical NAA Port Columbus museum.

North American only converted three but the Chinese converted about 50 of them to turbine power, some as trainers and others for attack.

There are a couple of articles on the history, as well as a manual to the a/c in Ztex's link.
What a beast!

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Part of the problem with the YAT-28E as a warbird is the gearbox -- this is the same problem that the Piper Enforcer would have as a warbird.

The gearboxes were all custom made, and the design hadn't really been refined yet. I don't remember the exact numbers off the top of my head, but the Enforcer gearboxes had to be completely overhauled something like every 50 hours of flight time.

There were only a handful of these gearboxes ever made and I don't even know if this project has one. When the Enforcer project ended in the early 1980s, the USAF retrieved the gearboxes that Piper had as they were USAF property.

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That is one cool looking bird!

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Magister Aviation
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If I'm not mistaken, this has been offered off and on in Trade-A-Plane for about 25 years.