T-34 Mentor / Navy Vietnam War two-seat trainers with combat capabilities

two-seat trainers with combat capabilities were introduced shortly after

working with the USAF

Like the RF-4C

self-sealing fuel tanks

operated by 10 Tanker Air Carrier

T-34 Mentor / Navy Vietnam War two-seat trainers with combat capabilitiesBeechcraft T 34B Mentor model. The first flight of the T 34 was on December 2, 1948, by Beechcraft test pilot Vern Carstens. The United States Air Force ordered three test aircraft, which were given the designation YT 34. A long competition followed to determine a new trainer, and in 1953 the Air Force put the T 34 into service as the T 34A Mentor, while the United States Navy followed in May 1955 with the T 34B. T 34A production ran from 1953 to