History:
The
Cessna T-37 " Tweet ", designed as trainer airplane for the US
air force in 1952, was used during the Vietnam war (modified as T-37A) and later
by some other air forces as support to counter insurgency operations (COIN).
The
Guatemalan Air Force (FAG) was the third in the world in receiving it as T-37B
and to use it in combat operations during the internal armed conflict, and it is
still part of the arsenal of the FAG, used in operations of national patrolling
and anti-drug program interceptions.
Some
scratch work carried out in the interior:
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The
Kit:
The
kit is the Academy T-37B Dragonfly No. 1663 that have excellent characteristics,
although some details were necessary modify and add so that it represented the
aircraft used by the FAG.
The
pattern represents the Alpha
(nickname given to those T-37B for the FAG) No. 444, code No. 73-1657 in service
in the year of 1974, part of the block 73 that it was acquired in support to the
block 69.
As
characteristic of the FAG aircraft, our Alphas are the only ones T-37B that
don't use the refuelling lance.
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