Textron Aviation Defense LLC, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced in coordination with the Kanematsu Group ...

Japan has chosen Textron Aviation Defense’s Beechcraft T-6 Texan II Integrated Training System to enhance its pilot training programme.

With a strong legacy to uphold, the 37th FTS continues its mission to create pilots and will use this newly painted T-6 to reach the next generation of aviators, giving ...

In late November, Japan's MoD (Ministry of Defense) chose the U.S.-made T-6 Texan II for the JASDF (Japan Air Self-Defense Force), where the Pilatus PC-7MKX and the Hürkuş were also competitors. It is ...

2025 — An earlier version of this story misidentified the second trainer aircraft involved in the flight demonstration. It was an SNJ Texan, not the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II.

to the T-28 Trojan trainer and light attack (counterinsurgency) aircraft ... the original T-6 Texan (the still-actively serving “sequel,” the T-6C Texan II, is built by Beechcraft).

We were accompanied by a former North American Aviation T-6 Texan during the flight demonstration. A fellow trainer aircraft, the Texan was used to train US Navy and Air Force pilots before World War ...

The aircraft bears resemblance to the Brazilian Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano (used as a trainer and light fighter), the US Air Force trainer Beechcraft T-6 Texan II (based on the Pilatus PC-9), and ...

The single most common training aircraft is the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, a single-engine turboprop aircraft based on the Swiss Pilatus PC-9 aircraft. It replaced the US Air Force's Cessna T-37B Tweet ...