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U.S. Army Air Corps Basic Trainer 'T-92A' (North American BT-9/BT-14 Type), Low Pass Over Runway

U.S. Army Air Corps Basic Trainer 'T-92A' (North American BT-9/BT-14 Type), Low Pass Over Runway

This photograph captures a U.S. Army Air Corps basic trainer aircraft, marked 'T-92A,' in a low pass just above the runway. Its enclosed tandem cockpit, radial engine, and spatted fixed landing gear are typical of trainers such as the North American BT-9/BT-14 series that prepared cadets for advanced flight training in the years leading up to World War II. The rudder's red-white-blue stripe pattern, discontinued in 1942, along with the plain star insignia, place this image firmly in the pre-war Air Corps era, a period of rapid expansion in American military pilot training. Project: 218470