This makes it sound as if the T-28D-5 and AT-28 were separate designations.
The –D (also known as T-28D-5, T-28D-10, AT-28 and the “Tango”) were –A, –B and some –C models converted by NAA and Fairchild Aviation for service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The aircraft had all the features of the –B plus armor plating, armament (there are three hard points on each wing to which 50-caliber machine gun pods, bomb pods and/or rocket pods could be attached), self-sealing fuel tanks, a stronger main wing spar, and an extraction seat (Stanley Aviation Yankee Ballistic Extraction System)
It sounds like they pulled T-28 A,B,&C models out of mothballs and reconfigured them into ground attack aircraft thus changing the designation to AT-28D "A" denoting "attack". I'm unclear what the 5, and 10 would mean.
I don't think I have ever seen an Attack version in real life, I grew up in Corpus Christi TX, so I saw plenty of typical red and white trainer T-28s. The Navel training base there also used I think a Beachcraft King Air as a multi engine trainer.
I remember Dad taking me to airshows and you could see T-28s in lines parked all over the place.
The –D (also known as T-28D-5, T-28D-10, AT-28 and the “Tango”) were –A, –B and some –C models converted by NAA and Fairchild Aviation for service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The aircraft had all the features of the –B plus armor plating, armament (there are three hard points on each wing to which 50-caliber machine gun pods, bomb pods and/or rocket pods could be attached), self-sealing fuel tanks, a stronger main wing spar, and an extraction seat (Stanley Aviation Yankee Ballistic Extraction System)
It sounds like they pulled T-28 A,B,&C models out of mothballs and reconfigured them into ground attack aircraft thus changing the designation to AT-28D "A" denoting "attack". I'm unclear what the 5, and 10 would mean.
I don't think I have ever seen an Attack version in real life, I grew up in Corpus Christi TX, so I saw plenty of typical red and white trainer T-28s. The Navel training base there also used I think a Beachcraft King Air as a multi engine trainer.
I remember Dad taking me to airshows and you could see T-28s in lines parked all over the place.
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