This was the Beechcraft Model 45, an aircraft that would become known as the T-34 Mentor, which even 76 years later, remains ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The T-34 Mentor is old, ugly, and comparatively slow. But training in it before ‘graduating’ to more advanced aircraft is a rite of passage for ...

some of which were derived from the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor. Over the past few decades, the JASDF employed these license-built T-34 derivatives as its primary trainers. By incorporating various ...