The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan was a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s. T-28S Fennec are ex-USAF T-28As converted in 1959 for use by the French Armee de l’Air.

• Role: Trainer aircraft
• National origin: United States
• Manufacturer: North American Aviation
• First flight: 24 September 1949
• Introduction: 1950
• Produced: 1950–57
• Status: Retired from military service 1994 Philippine Air Force
• Number built: 1,948

Operators

• Argentine Air Force – 34 T-28A
• Argentine Naval Aviation 65 ex-French Air Force T-28S Fennec aircraft
• Bolivian Air Force at least six T-28D
• Brazilian Navy – 18 T-28C
• Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – 14 T-28C, 3 T-28B, 10 T-28D
• Cuban Air Force – 10
• Dominican Air Force
• Ecuadorian Air Force – nine T-28A
• Ethiopian Air Force – 12 T-28A and 12 T-28D
• French Air Force – 148 T-28A airframes modified in France (1959) to make the T-28S Fennec COIN model
• Haitian Air Force – 12 ex-French Air Force
• Honduran Air Force – eight former Moroccan Air Force Fennecs
• Japanese Air Self-Defense Force
• Khmer National Air Force operated 47 T-28
• Royal Lao Air Force – 55 T-28D
• Mexican Air Force – 32 T-28A
• Royal Moroccan Air Force – 25 Fennec
• Nicaraguan Air Force – six T-28D
• Philippine Air Force – 12 T-28A
• Republic of Korea Air Force
• Royal Saudi Air Force
• Vietnam Air Force
• Tunisian Air Force – Fennec
• ROC Air Force (Taiwan)
• Royal Thai Air Force – 88 T-28Ds delivered
• United States Army
• United States Air Force – 1194 T-28A, of which 360 converted to “D”
• United States Navy – 489 T-28B and 299 T-28C
• Uruguayan Naval Aviation – Fennec
• Vietnam People’s Air Force
• Zaire

Specifications (T-28D)

General characteristics

• Crew: Two
• Length: 33 ft 0 in (10.06 m)
• Wingspan: 40 ft 1 in (12.22 m)
• Height: 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m)
• Wing area: 268 ft² (24.9 m²)
• Empty weight: 6,424 lb (2,914 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 8,500 lb (10,500 lb with combat stores) (3,856 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-1820-86 Cyclone radial engine, 1,425 hp (1,063 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 343 mph (552 km/h)
• Service ceiling: 39,000 ft (10,820 m)
• Rate of climb: 4,000 fpm (20.3 m/s)

Armament

• two or six × wing-mounted pylons capable of carrying bombs, napalm, rockets. machine gun pods containing .30 in (7.62 mm) (training), .50 in (D-model) or twin pods with .50 in (12.7 mm) and 20 mm (.79 in) cannon (Fennec)