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

Parts and service:

• Warbird Parts and Memorabilia