This Day in Aviation History
April 1st, 1935
First flight of the North American NA-16. The NA-16 was developed into the North American T-6 Texan.

The North American Aviation NA-16 was the first trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation, Inc. and was the beginning of a line of closely related North American trainer aircraft that would eventually number more than 17,000 examples….

Source:
Wikipedia, North American NA-16: http://gstv.us/1G4rBHb

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