What is a T-28?

The aircraft has tandem seating and is powered by a single engine. Following its success with the US Air Force, the US Navy and Marine Corps started using the North American T-28 as well.

What kind of boat is a G101?

G101-class torpedo boat. The G101 class was a class of four large torpedo boats (sometimes rated as destroyers) that were ordered for the Argentine Navy from the German shipyard Germaniawerft in 1912.

What kind of aircraft is the T-28C?

The North American T-28C you see here is one of the 266 US Navy aircraft carrier versions that were built, it still carries its Navy livery and markings. It’s currently fitted with a correct Curtiss Wright R-1820-86B showing just 14.7 hours since its last major overhaul (SMOH).

What was The G101 in WW1?

SMS G-101was the lead ship of the G-101 class of German destroyers in World War I. Originally laid down as a group of four large destroyers for the Argentian navy, these ships were seized by the Kaiserliche Marine upon the outbreak of World War I, and were modified to be equipped with German weaponry.

The T-28 was a Soviet multi-turreted medium tank. The prototype was completed in 1931, and production began in late 1932. It was an infantry support tank intended to break through fortified defences. The T-28 was designed to complement the heavier T-35 (also multi-turreted), with which it shared turret designs.

What kind of aircraft is the North American T-28 Trojan?

North American T-28 Trojan. The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a counter-insurgency aircraft, primarily during the Vietnam War.

How many T-28 tanks were made?

The T-28 tank was officially approved on 11 August 1933. The T-28 had one large turret with a 76.2 mm gun and two smaller turrets with 7.62 mm machine guns. A total of 503 T-28 tanks were manufactured over the eight-year period from 1933 to 1941. The T-28 was deployed during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, and the Winter War with Finland.

What was the last US Navy T-28 to fly?

The last U.S. Navy training squadron to fly the T-28 was VT-27 “Boomers”, based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, flying the last T-28 training flight in early 1984.