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Gauntlet Warbirds - Plane Ride on a T-6

Gauntlet Warbirds is a warbird, aerobatic and tailwheel training center at the Aurora Airport, just west of downtown Chicago. Their instructors specialize in transitioning pilots of all experience levels to high-performance piston and jet aircraft.

This certificate will let you take flight with the Gauntlet Warbirds in a North American T-6 Texan airplane. March over to Aurora Municipal Airport to meet with an experienced pilot, who will map out a plan for your ideal flight. Then, take to the skies for an adventure that includes as many flips, spins, and rolls as you can handle. Work the controls yourself or surrender them to your instructor. Thanks to a photo op with your antique WWII plane upon landing, you can fondly look back on this successful aerial campaign.

North American T-6 Texan

The T-6 is most famous as an advanced trainer during WWII, although it served in a variety of roles during and after the war including forward air control in Korea. The designation AT-6 was used by the Army Air Corps, while the Air Force referred to it as a T-6, while the Navy called the aircraft an SNJ. The Commonwealth Air Forces referred to it as a Harvard.

The aircraft has a 600 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine and carried armament of 3 .30 caliber machine guns and a 400-500 pound rocket or bombload. A total of 15,495 T-6s of all variants were produced between the mid-1930s and mid-1950. Gauntlet Warbirds’ SNJ-5 was delivered to the Navy in 1944. A tremendously versatile aircraft, the SNJ can be easily looped from cruise flight and is an outstanding platform for formation flying.


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