Florida Firm Revamps W.W.II Craft to Battle Guerillas
The Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is conducting tests of F-51D Mustang fighters specially modified for counterinsurgency" (i.e.. antiguerrilla) operations by the...
...Military Assistance Program is financing a program equipping the aircraft for the counterinsurgency role and then transferring them to Latin American armed services...
...For further details seer Aviation Week and Space Teehnolog October 16, 1967...
...The Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is conducting tests of F-51D Mustang fighters specially modified for counterinsurgency" (i.e...
...Some of the first batches of counterinsurgency Mustangs will be going to Guatemala, the Dominican Republic d Bolivia...
...antiguerrilla) operations by the Cavalier Aircraft Corporation of Sarasota, Florida...
...machine guns as well as wing mountings for high explosive ombs, napalm, and 5-inch air-to-ground rockets...
...After the Korean War the U.S...
...The Cavalier version of the F-51D will have six internally mounted 50-cal...
...Now the U.S...
...Cavalier Aircraft Corporation presently holds contracts for the conversion of twelve Mustangs --each with space for an observer-controller in addition to the pilot...
...Its original manufacturer, North American Aviation, produced a total of 15,500 of the planes...
...Delivery rate is presently one per month, expandable to eight per month within six months...
...Department of Defense sold some of the Mustangs to the air forces of underdeveloped nations and put the rest in storage...
...Utilizing droppable wing-tip fuel tanks, the plane will be able to remain "on station" over a possible target area for up to five hours at a time...
...The F-51 is a general purpose piston-engined fighter aircraft which first saw action during W.W...
Vol. 1 • October 1967 • No. 8
