The Consolidated PT-1 Trusty, company Model 1, was a biplane primary trainer used by the United States Army Air Service in the 1920s. Its roots lay in the Chummy sporting biplane designed in 1921 by Colonel Virginius Clark of the Dayton-Wright Company, which used the new Clark Y thick-section airfoil and a welded chrome-molybdenum steel tube fuselage, a sturdy departure from all-wood trainers. After evaluation of the Le Rhone powered TA-3 and the water-cooled TW-3 with a Wright-Hispano V8, Consolidated built 221 PT-1s with a 180 hp Wright-Hispano E engine. Aviation cadets in Texas and California flew it extensively, four similar aircraft went to Siam in 1928, and from 1928 the PT-3 replaced it in front-line service. It then served the National Guard until retired in the early 1930s, and one is displayed at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
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is a biplane primary trainer used by the United States Army Air Service
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Wright-Hispano E V-8 water-cooled piston engine
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until retired in the early 1930s
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used by the United States Army Air Service
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