File:Beechcraft AT-11.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(3,264 × 2,448 pixels, file size: 3.13 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: USAAF Serial: 43-10371

US Civil Registration: N92KC

From Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Model_18

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

During and after World War II, over 4,500 Beech 18s were used in military service—as light transport, light bomber (for China), aircrew trainer (for bombing, navigation, and gunnery), photo-reconnaissance, and "mother ship" for target drones—including United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-45 Expeditor, AT-7 Navigator, and AT-11 Kansan; and United States Navy (USN) UC-45J Navigator, SNB-1 Kansan, and others. In World War II, over 90% of USAAF bombardiers and navigators trained in these aircraft.

In the early postwar era, the Beech 18 was the pre-eminent "business aircraft" and "feeder airliner". Besides carrying passengers, its civilian uses have included aerial spraying, sterile insect release, fish stocking, dry-ice cloud seeding, aerial firefighting, air-mail delivery, ambulance service, numerous movie productions, skydiving, freight, weapon- and drug-smuggling, engine testbed, skywriting, banner towing, and stunt aircraft. Many are now privately owned, around the world, with 240 in the U.S. still on the FAA Aircraft Registry in August 2017.

Photo by Eric Friedebach
Date
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/146295701@N02/50815561731/
Author Eric Friedebach
Camera location28° 09′ 30.66″ N, 81° 48′ 31.59″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Eric Friedebach at https://flickr.com/photos/146295701@N02/50815561731. It was reviewed on 4 August 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

4 August 2021

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:04, 4 August 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:04, 4 August 20213,264 × 2,448 (3.13 MB)Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by Eric Friedebach from https://www.flickr.com/photos/146295701@N02/50815561731/ with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata