A.Mimoso flying Air Museum T-6 at Tires 18/9/94 (L.Tavares)
A.Mimoso flying Air Museum T-6 at Tires 18/9/94 (L.Tavares)
 

Photo gallery

Second star in the photo gallery ! The Harvard / T-6
 
After some time we present a new "bird" in our Photo Gallery : the legendary Harvard / T-6 or T-6 / Harvard as you wish.
It is no easy to deal with such a legendary aircraft due to many reasons:

a) Was by far the aircraft used in more numbers in our Military Aviation

b) One of us (Mimoso) is the pilot of the FAP Air Museum T-6

c) We have a lot of photos and documents about it, being very difficult to select some...

However, and as both of us like it very much, we decided, profiting from the release of the first Portuguese plastic kit of the T-6 (and incidentally a very good one), to present some photos of it, we think are interesting, and mainly from the Harvard Mk.IV sub-type.

T-6G 1641 (ex 51-15152 as can be seen...) (EMFA/CAVFA via A.Mimoso)
T-6 1641 (ex 51-15152 as can be seen...) probably just after been received at Sintra (B.A.1). Taken on charge 23/1/52
struck of charge 14/7/64.
 
CCF Harvard Mk.IV 1739 (Unknown via J.Castro)

CCF Harvard Mk.IV 1739 (c/n 4-524, USAF s/n 52-8603 ex LUFTWAFFE AA+629). Flying over Moçambique
 sometime during the sixties. T.O.C. 23/9/64, destroyed 22/10/67 (Unknown via J.Castro).
 

Harvard Mk.IV 1788 at Nacala (Moçambique) May 1975 (V.Morão via L.Tavares)
Harvard Mk.IV 1788 ( c/n 4-555, ex USAF 53-4636, ex LUFTWAFFE AA+689), T.O.C. 23/9/64. At Nacala (Moçambique) May
1975 already painted with anti-radiation green and 20 cm roundels. (V.Morão via L.Tavares)
 
Harvard Mk.IV 1770 in 1969 (Tavares via A.Mimoso)
Harvard Mk.IV 1770 with the black "galgo" from Tancos (B.A.3) in 1969. C/n 4-518, ex USAF 52-8597 and
LUFTWAFFE AA+686. T.O.C. 25/9/64, retired and placed as instructional airframe at Ota (B.A.2).
(Tavares via A.Mimoso)
Harvard Mk.IV 1774 of Air Museum (L.Tavares)
 
Harvard Mk.IV 1774 (c/n 4-486, ex USAF 52-8565, LUFTWAFFE AA+079, BF+079). Photo at Montijo (B.A.6
June 1984). Serving already as flying aircraft for Air Museum, but at this time with later design of Cross of Christ (see first
photo of this series). (L.Tavares)
Harvard Mk.IV 1774 Tiger stripped at Tiger Meeting (L.Tavares)
Same aircraft but correctly dressed for the Tiger Meeting at Montijo (B.A.6) at 30/6/87... (L.Tavares)
 
Harvard Mk.IV 1774 at Tiger Meeting (L.Tavares)
Detail of aircraft above with A.Mimoso preparing himself... (L.Tavares)
 
 
 
Hravard Mk.IV 1774 with color scheme from the fifities (L.Tavares)
Again same aircraft but using color scheme of the fifties (as opening photo). Tires 17/9/94 (L.Tavares)