A-37 Dragonfly
History's Unique AircraftThe Unfulfilled Promise of the Fairchild T-46
The modernized trainer developed for the U.S. Air Force in the 1980s was meant to replace the aging fleet of Cessna T-37 ’Tweets.’
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