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PT-17
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Photo: Robert
Deering 10/12/2008
Alliance Airport
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Fort Worth, Texas |
The PT-17 was a
standard primary trainer flown by the United
States and several allied nations during the
late 1930s through World War II. In 1933
Lloyd Stearman designed the forerunner of
the Kaydet, the Model 70, for the civilian
market. Three years later, the U.S. Army Air
Corps adopted a militarized version; the
PT-13 was powered by a Lycoming engine, a
Kaydet with a Continental engine received
the designation PT-17, and with a Jacobs
engine, the PT-18. A later version which
featured a cockpit canopy was designated the
PT-27.
There were 3,519
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SPECIFICATIONS: |
PERFORMANCE:
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Span:
32 ft 2 in (9.81 m)
Length:
24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Height:
9 ft 8 in (3 m)
Empty Weight: 1,931 lb
(878 kg
Gross Weight:
2,635 lb (1,200 kg)
Crew:
two, student and instructor |
Maximum
speed:
135 mph (117 knots, 217 km/h)
Cruising
speed:
96 mph (83 knots, 155 km/h)
Range:
13,200 ft (4,024 m)
Service
ceiling: |
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Engines:
1 × Continental R-670-5 seven-cylinder
air-cooled radial engine, 220 hp (164
kW) |
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SOURCE:
National Museum of the United States Air
Force and Wikipedia |
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Photo: Robert Deering 7/21/2018
Frontiers
of Flight Museum
Love Field (DAL)
Dallas,
Texas |
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VARIANTS:
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N2S
Kaydet |
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PT-13
Kaydet |
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