Beechcraft T-6 Texan II

The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engined turboprop trainer aircraft built by Textron Aviation and formerly manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft Company. It is a license-built development of the Pilatus PC-9, modified by Beechcraft to enter the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System competition in the 1990s, with a low-wing cantilever monoplane layout, enclosed tandem seating, a single Pratt and Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop and Martin-Baker Mark 16 ejection seats. It replaced the United States Air Force Cessna T-37B Tweet and the Navy T-34C Turbo Mentor during the 2010s. The T-6A was introduced at Moody and Randolph Air Force Bases in 2000 and 2001, and the Air Force awarded the full-rate production contract in December 2001. The Royal Canadian Air Force flies it as the CT-156 Harvard II, and the Greek, Israeli and Iraqi air forces use it for basic flight training.