Beech Aircraft Corporation Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
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T-34 Mentor
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| A T-34B Mentor aircraft from Training Squadron 5 (VT-5) in 1976 | |
| Role | Trainer aircraft |
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| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Beechcraft |
| First flight | 2 December 1948 |
| Introduction | 1953 |
| Primary users | United States Air Force United States Navy Japan Air Self-Defense Force Republic of China Air Force |
| Produced | 1953–19591975–1990 |
| Number built | 2,300+ |
| Developed from | Beechcraft Bonanza |
| Developed into | Fuji KM-2 |
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Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is an American propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza. The earlier versions of the T-34, dating from around the late 1940s to the 1950s, were piston-engined. These were eventually succeeded by the upgraded T-34C Turbo-Mentor, powered by a turboprop engine. The T-34 remains in service more than seven decades after it was first designed.
Variants
- YT-34
- Prototype, three built.
- T-34A
- US Air Force trainer. Replaced by the Cessna T-37 around 1960 (450 built).
- T-34B
- US Navy trainer. Used as a trainer until 1976, when VT-1 and VT-5 were decommissioned. It was replaced by the T-34C (423 built by Beechcraft). T-34Bs were flown by pilots assigned to the Navy Recruiting Command until the mid-1990s.
- YT-34C
- Two T-34Bs were fitted with turboprop engines, and were used as T-34C prototypes.
- T-34C Turbo-Mentor
- Two-seat primary trainer, fitted with a turboprop engine.
- T-34C-1
- Equipped with hardpoints for training or light attack, able to carry 1,200 lb (540 kg) of weapons on four underwing pylons. The armament could include flares, incendiary bombs, rocket or gun pods and antitank missiles. Widely exported.
- Turbine-Mentor 34C
- A civil variant introduced -- not, it seems, in search of private buyers, but for governmental sales where a military type was undesireable. Six were sold to the Algerian national pilot training school in 1979.
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General Info
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- Length: 28 ft 8+1⁄2 in (8.750 m)
- Wingspan: 33 ft 3+7⁄8 in (10.157 m)
- Height: 9 ft 7 in (2.92 m)
- Wing area: 179.6 sq ft (16.69 m2)
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Powerplant
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- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 turboprop, 550 shp (410 kW)
- Propellers: 3-bladed Hartzell constant-speed
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Performance
- Cruise speed: 214 kn (246 mph, 396 km/h) at 17,000 ft (5,200 m) (max cruise)
- Stall speed: 53 kn (61 mph, 98 km/h) (flaps down, power off)
- Never exceed speed: 280 kn (320 mph, 520 km/h)
- Range: 708 nmi (815 mi, 1,311 km) at 180 kn (210 mph; 330 km/h) and 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
- Service ceiling: 30,000 ft (9,100 m)
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Armament
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- Hardpoints: 4 with a capacity of 600 lb (272 kg) inner, 300 lb (136 kg) outer, 1,200 lb (544 kg) total
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The U.S. Air Force used the T-34A for primary flight training during the 1950s. The original Mentor, a Beechcraft Model 45 derived from the famous Beechcraft Bonanza, was first flown in December 1948. The first military prototype, designated YT-34 by the USAF, made its initial flight in May 1950.
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Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
The Mentor remained the standard USAF primary trainer until the introduction of the Cessna T-37 jet trainer in the late 1950s.
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Three hundred fifty were built in the United States and 100 more were produced in Canada under license. The U.S. Navy and 10 foreign militaries also used the T-34.
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