jankees 917 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 For the new Texan: and a bit of background:Belgian Air Force Harvard H210 as flown by Lt. Baudouin Carpentier de Changy, who was a fighter-pilot flying Hawker Hunter F.6's at the 7th Wing of Chièvres, when he volunteered for duty with the Fire Assistance Flights (FAF) in Belgian Congo. Flying his T-6 4KA, armed Harvard H-210, he managed to rescue his fellow pilot Sgt. Guy De Pypere from the airfield of Matadi-Tshimpi in pure Hollywood-style. He landed in front of the astonished rebels occupying the airfield's tower, to pick up his injured friend who had made a belly landing in the high grass bordering the airfield after being hit by ground fire. Unfortunately de Changy was shot down over the Inkisi bridge a few days later on 17 July 1960 and although he survived an emergency landing, he was killed by the rebels. link: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5674-a2a-t-6g-texan-belgian-air-force-h-210/ Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 and another Belgian: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5673-a2a-t-6-texan-oo-ger/ Harvard MK.IIA c/n 88-10014 OO-GEN, which was originally 41-33344, before going to the RAF as EX371. After the war, it went to the Belgian Air Force as H-26. It was sold to COGEA Nouvelle of Oostende, Belgian as atarget tug, becoming OO-GEN in 1958. It was sold to the Portuguese Air Force in 1962, and is believed to have ended up in the Katangan Air Force in Africa. Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 a T-6G of the Italian Air Force, serial MM54098, which is preserved next to the apron of the 609th Squadriglia Collegamenti (now 21st Gruppo) in the Western area of Grazzanise airbase. Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,284 Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 Great shots and paints JK, I think the T-6 will look comfortable in any skin it wears. Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5687-a2a-t-6g-texan-swedish-air-force-80-snoopy/http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5686-a2a-t-6g-texan-swedish-air-force-69/ Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Oh man - I NEED that snoopy repaint!! Great work buddy! Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 and another Snoopy on the way... Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 Are these legit planes Jan? Wonder what the reason for Snoopy was/is? Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 yes, these were/are real aircraft. SE-CHP is still airworthy, with Snoopy on the tail, and the green 80 had Snoopy on the nose around 1970. Why? I have no idea... Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 Well that is very strange but cool in the same way - maybe has a reference to the red baron from the old snoopy series/comics/books etc? god knows aye It looks cool either way - just a shame the British didn't have a snoopy plane Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 two more paints now available: Harvard Mk.4 C-FWPK of the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association. Originally manufactured by the Canadian Car and Foundry, Fort William, Ontario, it entered Service with the RCAF on February 29, 1952. It was disposed of on July 30, 1967, and while with the RCAF, it served with 2 FTS Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and No. 4 FTS Penhold, Alberta. Originally disposed of for $1,850, WPK spent several years flying out of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Jim Vernon of Oakville purchased WPK in the early 1970’s and was later flown as the #2 position in a 4-plane Goldilocks Formation for the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. In 1978, it was bought by Norm & Kent Beckham and Bob Hewitt, and based out of Woodstock. WPK was purchased by CHAA in 1989. link: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5691-a2a-t-6g-texan-c-fwpk-rcaf242/ AT-6A Texan c/n 77-4524, built in 1941. It was 41-16443 with the USAAF, and NC66072 after the war, before coming to Sweden in 1953, becoming 16269 with the Swedish Air Force, flying with F15. It was sold in 1957, becoming SE-CHP with Svensk Flygtjänst, where it was used for training for the SAS until 1968. It is currently owned by Björn Löwgren and is still airworthy. link: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5692-a2a-t-6g-texan-se-chp/ Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5694-a2a-t-6g-texan-ph-uei-rijksluchtvaartschool/ North American AT-16-ND Harvard IIB PH-UEI of the Rijksluchtvaartschool, the Netherlands, 1950-1960. Originally c/n 14-190, USAAF 42-653, RAF FE456. It went to the Rijksluchtvaartschool in 1950 and was used until 1960, when it was sold to COGEA of Oostende, Belgium, becoming OO-JBW. Parts of this aircraft I believe still exist, the fuselage is in Haacht and the wings in Meerhout. Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,284 Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Beautiful work on all these repaints, am I weird that I like the plain one above a few posts? Probably. Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Beautiful work on all these repaints, am I weird that I like the plain one above a few posts? Probably. The silver one? I like that one too if it is. Some of these texans are very bright - I'm too dull for those and like the plain ones. Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,284 Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Beautiful work on all these repaints, am I weird that I like the plain one above a few posts? Probably. The silver one? I like that one too if it is. Some of these texans are very bright - I'm too dull for those and like the plain ones. Ditto Jim, yeah the Swedish one. There are a lot of repaints for the T-6 already available out there, I think the repainters are in a rush to get their favorites out. Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 not so much a rush, but there are so many fun ones to be painted... still work in progress though.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/profile/750-jankees/content/&type=downloads_file This particular aircraft of the Swedish Air Force, 16065, the former 43-13015/FT274,c/n 14A-1314, flew with F21, based in Kalmar, and was painted in this experimental winter camouflage scheme during exercise "Operation Norrsken" in March 1970. Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 That is cool - great camo Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 Icy!!! Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted April 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 next one, but still work in progress: Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,010 Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 Nice work Jan. It's looking good. Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted May 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 final version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjqr4oqnhej5n3c/A2A_T6_Texan_I-SSEP.zip?dl=0 T-6G I-SSEP was built as a T6-D in 1944, with c/n 121-41586 / 44-80865. It was converted to a T-6G in 1951, becoming 51-14462. After being operated for about a year in North Carolina, it went to Italy as part of the Mutual Defence Assistence Program, becoming MM 54101 of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana. Over the years, it was assigned the codes AA-40, RM-11 and RB-11, ending up at the airport of Bari, where is was more or less forgotten. It was bought by its current owners, a team led by pilots Sandro Pagiarin and Luca Eusepi, and painstakingly restored, making its first flight in 2004. It is painted in the colors of a T-6C that flew with the 604th Squadron of the 4th Stormo of Grosseto in the '50's and '60's. It is operated by the Historical Aircraft Group, based in Grosseto. Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted October 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 AT-6C Harvard IIA F-AZBE c/n 88-12127 which is based in La Ferté, France. http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/5845-a2a-t-6g-texan-f-azbe/ Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 nice one, I can just imagine how loud that would be.....great work.... Link to post Share on other sites
jankees 917 Posted September 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 (edited) all the old ones (some reworked) and one new paint just uploaded on sim-outhouse and avsim. Edited September 9, 2018 by jankees Link to post Share on other sites
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