Info on NJ-1 BuNo 0910
Just a few words and images for this model.
The NJ-1 was used by the Navy for instrument training. The red tail and wing stripes identify 0910 as an instrument trainer. In 1940, 39 of these NJ-1s were based at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
The NJ-1 was the Navy equivalent of the North American BT-9, but had a slightly more powerful 600 hpPratt & Whitney R-1340 engine. The Navy bought 40 of them in 1936 for use primarily as trainers at Pensacola, but also as command aircraft and personnel transports.
Image 1 is of 0910 at Pensacola in 1937.
Image 2 is a Navy History & Heritage Command photo of a similar (or perhaps the same) aircraft.
Image 3 is a Navy recruiting poster featuring an NJ-1.
Sources:
Peter Freeman, Wings of the Fleet: US Navy & Marine Corps Aviation 1919-1941, On Target Special, Ardington, Oxfordshire, UK: The Aviation Workshop Publications Ltd., 2010, p53.
William T. Larkins, U.S. Navy Aircraft 1921-1941, Concord, CA: Aviation History Publications, 1961, p220.
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