Mike Thompson's AT-6/SNJ/Texan Page
In June of 2000 I flew a 1945 SNJ at War Bird Adventures in Kissimmee Florida. The SNJ has a 35 mm still camera in the left wing-tip, and color video cameras in the right wing-tip, vertical stabilizer, and under the instrument panel. You sit in the front seat with a very experienced instructor pilot in the back. After take-off the instructor demonstrates the aerobatics and lets you fly the SNJ. The video of this flight is awesome!
War Bird Adventures Kissimmee, Florida Open all year, Tuesday - Saturday 09:00 - 17:00
Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee, Florida Open all year, Tuesday - Saturday 09:00 - 17:00
You should really try this!
We started with aileron rolls, rolls, and loops and then combined them into Cuban-Eights. The image at the top-left was taken half way through a wing-over, at the top-right we just started a loop, bottom-left cruising through the clouds, bottom-right has the Kissimmee Airport in the background.
The SNJ was also known as a A-6, Harvard, Texan, and Wirraway. The SNJ was built by North American Avaition and has a 600 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 supercharged, aircooled radial engine. It's normal criuse speed is about 160 MPH, but it can go over 200 MPH in level flight. It even has 2 30-cal Browning machine guns, and locations for 1000 pounds of underwing stores like rockets, bombs, or machine gun pods.
For more information on the SNJ you can visit:
- 1998 Reno Air Races Texan Pictures
- AIRBORNE REPLICAS
- AT-6 Harvards in New Zealand
- AT-6 Modeling
- AT-6 Model from Global
- AT-6 Model from Great Planes Model Manufacturing
- AT-6 Model from Top Flite
- AT-6 Model from Wing Manufacturing
- AT-6 Model from Yellow Aircraft International
- AVIATION PUBLICATIONS
- Boeing
- Central Coast T-6 Texan Racing
- CraftAir (Spain)
- National Championship Air Races 2000 AT-6
- North American Trainer Association (NATA)
- North American SNJ Texan
- Perrin Field Historical Society
- Pilot Report: North American AT-6/SNJ Texan
- SNJ Model from Nor-Cal Aero
- Squadron 13 AT-6 Harvard Pictures
- T-6: A Pictorial Record of the Harvard, Texan and Wirraway
- T-6 Racing Association
- T-6 Texan photo gallery
- The Military Aircraft Archive
- The Story of the AT-6 Texan (book)
- Transport Command, Ltd.
- Virtual Aircraft Museum
- WARBIRD BULLETIN BOARD
- Warlock at the 1995 Reno Air races
- Warlock at the 1996 Reno Air races
You can see SNJ/Texan/Harvard/Wirraways at:
- Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover Air Force Base, DE USA
- Albatros-Flugmuseum, Stuttgart Germany
- Arkansas Air Museum, Fayetteville, AR USA
- Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Auto + Technik Museum, Sinsheim Germany
- Aviodome - National Aeronautical Museum, Amsterdam Netherlands
- Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley, B.C. Canada
- Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Canada
- Castle Air Museum, Atwater, CA USA
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Dallas, TX USA
- Confederate Air Force (Southern Minnesota Wing)
- Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL USA
- Fighter Command, Front Royal, VA USA
- Fleet Air Arm Museum, Ilchester UK
- Flugausstellung Leo Junior, Hermeskeil Germany
- Harvards, Texans and Trojans in Australia
- Hellenic Air Force Museum, Dekelia (Tatoi) Air Base Greece
- Imperial War Museum, Duxford UK
- Indian Air Force Museum, Palam
- Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum, Villingen-Schwenningen Germany
- Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Kalamazoo, MI USA
- Laughlin AFB TX USA
- Lone Star Flight Museum
- Luchtmacht Museum, Soesterberg Netherlands
- Luftwaffenmuseum, Berlin-Gatow Germany
- Luke AFB, Phoenix, AZ USA
- March Field Air Museum, Riverside, CA USA
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum
- Minnesota Air Guard Museum, Mpls-St.Paul International Airport, USA
- Modes AT-6 Instruction, Prescott, AZ USA
- Musée de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militairein, Bruxelles Belgium
- Museo de Aeronautica y Astronautica, Madrid Spain
- Museo del Aire, Madrid Spain
- Museo Do Ar, Alverca do Ribatejo Portugal
- Museo Nazionale Della Scienza e Della Tecnica, Milano Italy
- Muzeum Lotnictwa Narodowe, Krakow Poland
- National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola FL USA
- National Warplane Museum, Horseheads, NY USA
- Newark Air Museum, Newark UK
- NORTH AMERICAN TOP-GUN, St. Augustine, FL USA
- Parco Tematico dell'Aviazione, San Marino Italy
- Pima Air & Space Museum, Tuscon, Arizona USA
- RAAF Museum Point Cook
- Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon UK
- Shaw Air Force Base, Sumpter, South Carolina USA
- Svedinos Bil-Och Flygmuseum, Sloinge Sweden
- The Fighter Collection, Duxford UK
- The New Zealand Fighter Pilot's Museum
- The Wings of Freedom, Huntington, IN USA
- Turkish Air Force Museum, Izmar Turkey
- Tuskegee Airman "Trouble Maker", Englewood, CO USA
- US Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB Dayton, OH USA
- War Bird Adventures, Kissimmee, FL USA
- War Eagles Air Museum, Santa Teresa, NM USA
- Warbirds of Norway
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