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Old 9th December 2019, 15:12
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Re: T-6 Floatplane

Alex

Not much help with the Korean conversion, which only gets a very superficial mentioning in the literature. There is a photo of it on page 54 in the T-6 Texan in action (Squadron Signal 94). The caption says it was a 6147th TCS(A) T-6F which ran out of gas and crashed at Kwangju in December 1950. It was hauled to Chinhae where it was modified with a central float from a Nakajima Rufe (floatequipped Zero) and wingtip floats from P-80 tip tanks. It was known as the KN-1. No serial visible, only the usual large K on the fin/rudder. Looks pretty neat if you ask me, but cannot have been very useful.

Also I am pretty certain no other nation converted any T-6 into a float plane.

For your information, North American had plans themself for such a version, the P-292 project (only existed on a drawing) equipped with twin Edo floats, but it all came to nothing.

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Stig
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