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JOE DAVIES HERITAGE AIRPARK AT PALMDALE PLANT 42

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Manufactured by Northrop Aircraft, Hawthorne CA and accepted into inventory in June 1964.

Jun 1964	To 3550th Pilot Training Wing (Air Training Command), Moody AFB GA
Dec 1973	Unit became 38th Flying Training Wing
Oct 1975	To 64th Flying Training Wing (ATC), Reese AFB TX
Feb 1995	To Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, Davis-Monthan AFB AZ Transferred to Northrop Aircraft in Hawthorne
Oct 2000	Transferred to Palmdale Air Park, CA

MANUFACTURER:	Northrop Aircraft Corporation
PRODUCTION PERIOD:	1960 to 1972
NUMBER PRODUCED:	1,189
PRODUCTION SERIES:	T-38A, T-38C and AT-38B
ROLES:	Advanced jet trainer, AT-38B, lead-in trainer for weapons delivery; dissimilar air combat trainer at the USN Top Gun Fighter School; USAF aggressor aircraft

(Figures given are for the T-38A model)

MAXIMUM SPEED:	800 mph (Mach 1.3)
SERVICE CEILING:	50,000 feet above sea level
RANGE:	1,000 miles
WEAPONS:	T-38A/B is not cleared for weapons carriage. The AT-38B has a single stores station capable of carrying the practice bomb/rocket dispenser or a gun pod
CREW:	Two pilots (instructor and trainee)
LENGTH:	46 feet, 5 inches
WINGSPAN:	25 feet, 3 inches
HEIGHT:	12 feet, 11 inches
MAXIMUM TAKEOFF WEIGHT:	11,820 lbs.
POWERPLANT:	Two General Electric J85-GE-5 turbojet engines with afterburner, providing 3,850 lbs. of thrust each
ACHIEVEMENTS:	First supersonic jet trainer built for the USAF; established four time-to- climb records in the early 1960s; operated by the USAF Thunderbirds Flight Demonstration Team

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