North American P-64

The North American P-64 was the designation the United States Army Air Corps gave to the North American Aviation NA-68 fighter, an upgraded variant of the NA-50 developed in the late 1930s. The NA-50 was a simple single-seat, low-wing, single-engined fighter designed for export to small countries, developed from the NA-16 basic trainer of 1935. Seven NA-50s were bought by the Peruvian Air Force, which nicknamed the type Torito, Spanish for little bull, and they saw action in the Ecuadorian-Peruvian War of 1941. Six NA-68s ordered by the Royal Thai Air Force were seized by the United States government in 1941 after the Franco-Thai War, and the Army Air Corps used them as unarmed fighter trainers.