The North American Aviation A-27 is an attack version of the

North American T-6 Texan The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air force ...

. Ten aircraft were ordered by

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as NA-69 light attack aircraft. Instead of being delivered to Thailand, the aircraft were taken over in October 1940 by the

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(USAAC) to keep them out of Japanese hands and redesignated A-27 under the USAAC aircraft designation system. Assigned to

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in the

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and used as a trainer, all A-27s were destroyed within a month during the Japanese invasion of that country during

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*** 3rd Pursuit Squadron - 1941 ***

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- 1941 *** 20th Pursuit Squadron - 1941 ;

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North American A-27 The North American Aviation A-27 is an attack version of the North American T-6 Texan. Ten aircraft were ordered by Thailand as NA-69 light attack aircraft. Instead of being delivered to Thailand, the aircraft were taken over in October 1940 by ...

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