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Commemorative Air Force
Aviation HistoryTampa Bay CAF to Restore WWII Trainer to Airworthiness
Fairchild PT-19 was designed in the late 1930s when the U.S. military was looking for an improvement on tailwheel-equipped biplanes.
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