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Fairchild PT-19
Role	Trainer
Manufacturer	Fairchild Aircraft
First flight	15 May 1939
Introduction	1940
Primary users	United States Army Air Corps United States Army Air Forces Royal Canadian Air Force Royal Air Force
Number built	7,700+

According to H.L. Puckett, "Still U.S. pilots were receiving their primary flight training in biplanes, although the low wing advance trainer was in use. A look around showed that there was no low wing primary trainer being produced in the U.A. Fairchild felt this urgency and set his organization at work on such a low wing trainer with the proposal that the new proven Ranger be used as the power plant for the new airplane to be known as the M-62. The M-62, which was to become the PT-19, was to use the experience gained from the F-24 and the more recent Model 46.

In 1944, Republic Aviation's chief designer, Alexander Kartveli, began working on a turbojet-powered replacement for the P-47 Thunderbolt piston-engined fighter aircraft. The initial attempts to redesign the P-47 to accommodate a jet engine proved futile due to the large cross-section of the Thunderbolt's fuselage. Instead, Kartveli and his team designed a new aircraft with a much-slimmer fuselage housing an axial compressor turbojet engine in the rear fuselage, and an air intake in the nose of the fuselage, with air ducts running from the nose to the engine and taking up much of the fuselage volume. Fuel was mainly stored in tanks in the thick, but laminar flow airfoil, unswept wings

Variants

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Fairchild PT-19 model M62

General Info

Crew: two (pilot, student)
Length: 28 ft 0 in (8.53 m)
Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m)
Height: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Wing area: 200 sq ft (19 m²)

Powerplant

Wing area: 200 sq ft (19 m²) Empty weight: 1,845 lb (837 kg) Gross weight: 2,545 lb (1,154 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Ranger L-440-3 6-cyl. inverted air-cooled in-line piston engine, 200 hp (150 kW)

Performance

Maximum speed: (132 mph, 212 km/h)
Range: 350 nmi (400 mi, 640 km)
Service ceiling: (4,700 m)
Time to altitude: 17.5 min to 3,000 m

Armament

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Links to Youtube & Others

As of 2011, there were 98 airworthy aircraft worldwide.
One example is found at the Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California

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PT-19 model M62

Development of the type continue and in 1935 the Bf 108B appeared with the fin and rudder having undergone modifications.

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Conceived as a competitive aircraft the Bf 108 would take part in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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Fairchild PT-19 model M62