The Allison T38, company Model 501, was an early turboprop engine that the Allison Engine Company developed in the late 1940s. It began as a single power section of the twin-section T40, built to help develop that engine, with a 17-stage axial compressor, eight tubular combustion chambers and a four-stage turbine. It first ran in 1947 and first flew in the nose of a Boeing B-17 test aircraft in April 1949. Its only production uses never materialized, because the Beechcraft XT-36 trainer and Convair T-29E that were to carry it were cancelled, but it flew in a converted Convair CV-240 and the McDonnell XF-88B. The T38 became the basis of the very successful Allison T56.
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the T38 first ran in 1947
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Fuel type: MIL-F-5572 100/130 Octane Gasoline
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was an early turboprop engine developed by Allison Engine Company
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Beechcraft XT-36 (planned for retrofit; project cancelled)
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