Preserved in this town between Treviso and Udine.

Photo by David Spiteri Staines.

The BT-12 production line inside the Fleetwings plant showing ships #9 thru #14 of a 24 ship order with serials 42-3684 to 3707 allocated. Serials 42-3708 thru 3883, which would have brought the order up to 200, were cancelled when the military decided they preferred the Vultee BT-13. Construction involved the extensive use of stainless steel, including for skin panels. The fuselage structure was made from carbon steel tube with stainless skin panels attached using "Shake-proof Fasteners" (probably what is known as quarter-turn fasteners today). The novelty of the design probably put the military off as being too different for maintenance to cope with. Photo from: William Engle via Tim Martin

Photographer Claudio Maranta

Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ in 1993. Sold for scrap in 2015.

The Fleetwings Model 23 was a two-seat basic trainer designated BT-12 by the military. It was powered by a P&W R-985 engine of 450 hp and utilized much stainless steel for construction. This prototype was flown from the Fleetwings plant at Bristol/PA to Wright Field, Dayton/OH on 12 January 1941, with acceptance tests commencing on 21 April 1941. In this photo it is up on an acceptance flight with Fleetwings chief project test pilot William H. Engle in the front and Doug Mason in the rear seat. On 21 February 1944 it was tagged as CL-26 (Ground maintenance trainer) and last known of at the Walter Soplata Collection, Newbury, OH. Photo from: William Engle (son of Fleetwings test pilot William H. Engle) via Tim Martin

Arriving at Santiago was this CJ1, 364 another FACh aircraft for my collection.

Landing after a mission this afternoon was the same aircraft I took a photo of during FIDAE. 992 looks a real treat in the evening light.

Photographer unknown

The Fleetwings Model 36 was a plywood skinned aerial target with the military designation PQ-12A. This particular aircraft was the prototype and it first flew on 5 December 1941 as NX37010 powered by a Franklin O-300-7 engine of 175 hp. Test pilot William H. Engle was at the controls. (Prototype serial 41-39057 for XPQ-12 not taken up.) On 18 Sept 1942, NX37010 was cancelled and military serial 41-39098 was applied for an XPQ-12A. Subsequent modifications included a simplified nose leg and wheel fairing and substitution of a Lycoming O-435-5 engine of 225 hp. The latter necessitated a larger cowling as seen on the photo of 41-39045. Photo from: William Engle (son of Fleetwings test pilot William H. Engle) via Tim Martin

First flew as N64996 in 1979. Delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces as 140111 in 1980. Modified to a CP-140M in 2020.

The first Canberra built in the United States, flying near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge which was opened in 1952. Photo from: US Air Force