Talk:Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Jeep

First flight

Do we know the exact date of first flight? Drutt (talk) 20:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

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Postwar fate of these aircraft

I citation-tagged this passage: Because of its difficult flying characteristics the AT-9 was not offered for sale to civilians after the war... This contradicts what I've read online about the AT-9 and AT-10, which asserted that almost all of them were sold to civil buyers in military surplus auctions, as the U.S. military decided that their now-plentiful stocks of B-25s and A-26s, no longer needed as bombers, were adequate to fulfill the need for multiengine/navigation/bombardier trainers, target tugs, and so forth. However, the AT-9 and AT-10 had unforgiving flying qualities and (perhaps more significantly) inferior operating economics compared to the C-45/SNB/JRB aka Twin Beech, so almost all of them were immediately parted out and the airframes scrapped, with the engines being installed in milsurp Boeing-Stearman Model 75s and (to a lesser extent) Naval Aircraft Factory N3Ns for cropdusting or aerobatic use. The issue: my sources for this information are a variety of forum, social media, and blog posts I've read over the years, so they don't meet WP:RS. The story sounds completely reasonable and logical (it explains where all those R-680 engines came from), but I don't know where to find a citation. Carguychris (talk) 14:22, 17 September 2024 (UTC)