AF will scrap entire T-3 fleet

[satpak77]

Looks like over 100 airplanes will be scrapped. Wonder how much we paid for these planes in the first place?

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/09/04/daily34.html?jst=b_ln_hl

 

[mtrv]

Looks like over 100 airplanes will be scrapped. Wonder how much we paid for these planes in the first place?

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2006/09/04/daily34.html?jst=b_ln_hl

$295,000.00 ea.

 

[wrxpilot]

What a waste... Looks like a fun plane.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/t-3.htm

 

[seethru]

Wasn't the Air Force going to Diamond aircraft, or something like that? This was a couple of years ago.

Maybe I'm thinking about the AF Academy.

 

[wrxpilot]

Wasn't the Air Force going to Diamond aircraft, or something like that? This was a couple of years ago.

Maybe I'm thinking about the AF Academy.

Yep, the academy has the Diamonds.

 

[ElCid88]

The T-41 should have been replaced with newer Cessnas (even used ones). It was perfect for what we did. No need to get into aero or spins prior to UPT. Plus it was an American made arcraft. With the new Cessna 172s now a days, I wish they would just go back to them. Great trainiers, and they last forever. Just my opinon.

 

[JimNtexas]

I was at Hondo a few years ago, and got a couple of pictures of them before a rent-a-cop ran me off. I'm pretty sure they had big block lycs, too bad the EAA couldn't work a deal for these engines. The homebuilders would eat up a bunch of low time first run motors.

 

[wrxpilot]

I was at Hondo a few years ago, and got a couple of pictures of them before a rent-a-cop ran me off. I'm pretty sure they had big block lycs, too bad the EAA couldn't work a deal for these engines. The homebuilders would eat up a bunch of low time first run motors.

Yeah, pretty big ones:
One Textron Lycoming Ltd. AEIO-540-D4A5 engine

 

[Huggyu2]

I got a 1 hour flight in the T-3 back around '94 or '95. It was pretty fun. Too bad the "liability" issue scares even the USAF.

 

[414Flyer]

The T-41 should have been replaced with newer Cessnas (even used ones). It was perfect for what we did. No need to get into aero or spins prior to UPT. Plus it was an American made arcraft. With the new Cessna 172s now a days, I wish they would just go back to them. Great trainiers, and they last forever. Just my opinon.

I think those T-3s were one of McPeaks legacies, were any of his ideas good? I do not think there was every anything really wrong with the airplane that was found. One thing that was not a good idea I was told, was that some people were moved out of C-141s to teach in the T-3, and that really had little to no experience flying a piston or aerobatic plane in a quite a while, and some got themselves in trouble.

I was living in Hondo in 2001, me and the other pilots so wanted to get one of those planes and take it to Mexico