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Family of military training aircraft T-28 Trojan A US Navy T-28B in 1973 Role Trainer aircraft Light attack Manufacturer First flight 24 September 1949 Retired 1994 Primary users Produced 1950–1957 Number built 1,948 Developed from Developed into The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military used by the and beginning in the 1950s. Besides its use as a trainer, the T-28 was successfully employed as a aircraft, primarily during the.

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It has continued in civilian use as an and performer. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Design and development [ ] On September 24, 1949, the XT-28 (company designation NA-159) was flown for the first time, designed to replace the. The T-28A arrived at the,, Florida, in mid-June 1950, for suitability tests as an advanced trainer by the 3200th Fighter Test Squadron, with consideration given to its transition, instrument, and gunnery capabilities. Found satisfactory, a contract was issued and between 1950 and 1957, a total of 1,948 were built. Following the T-28's withdrawal from U.S. Military service, a number were remanufactured by into two versions called the Nomair. The first refurbished machines, designated T-28R-1 were similar to the standard T-28s they were adapted from, and were supplied to the.

Later, a more ambitious conversion was undertaken as the T-28R-2, which transformed the two-seat tandem aircraft into a five-seat cabin monoplane for general aviation use. Other civil conversions of ex-military T-28As were undertaken by as the Nomad Mark I and Nomad Mark II Operational history [ ]. A T-28A in 1957 After becoming adopted as a primary trainer by the USAF, the United States Navy and Marine Corps adopted it as well. Although the Air Force phased out the aircraft from primary pilot training by the early 1960s, continuing use only for limited training of special operations aircrews and for primary training of select foreign military personnel, the aircraft continued to be used as a primary trainer by the Navy (and by default, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard) well into the early 1980s. The largest single concentration of this aircraft was employed by the U.S. Navy at in, in the training of student naval aviators.

The T-28's service career in the U.S. Military ended with the completion of the phase-in of the turboprop trainer. The last U.S. Navy training squadron to fly the T-28 was 'Boomers', based at, Texas, flying the last T-28 training flight in early 1984.

The last T-28 in the Training Command, 137796, departed for Naval District Washington on 14 March 1984 to be displayed permanently at, D.C. Vietnam War combat [ ]. T-28Cs over Vietnam In 1963, a T-28 piloted by Lieutenant Chert Saibory, a Thai national, defected to. Saibory was immediately imprisoned and his aircraft was impounded. Within six months the T-28 was refurbished and commissioned into the North Vietnamese Air Force as its first fighter aircraft.

T-28s were supplied to the in support of ground operations, seeing extensive service during the in hands, as well as the in. A T-28 Trojan was the first US fixed wing attack aircraft (non-transport type) lost in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Simpson, USAF, Detachment 2A,, and Lt.

Hoa, SVNAF, were shot down by ground fire on August 28, 1962 while flying close air support. Neither crewman survived. The USAF lost 23 T-28s to all causes during the war, with the last two losses occurring in 1968. Other combat uses [ ] T-28s were used by the in the former during the 1960s. France's used locally re-manufactured Trojans for close support missions in. Nicaragua replaced its fleet of 30+ ex Swedish P-51s with T-28s in the early 1960s.

[ ] The utilized T-28s (colloquially known as 'Tora-toras') during the. The aircraft were often deployed as by rebel forces. [ ] Civilian use [ ] modified and armored a T-28A to fly for, funded by the, and operated in this capacity from 1969 to 2005. SDSM&T was planning to replace it with another modified, but more modern, former military aircraft, specifically a. This plan was found to carry too many risks associated with the costly modifications required and the program was cancelled in 2018. Aerobatics and warbird display [ ] Many retired T-28s were subsequently sold to private civil operators, and due to their reasonable operating costs are often found flying or displayed as today.