
Airplane / Aviation / Actual T-6 Harvard MK II aircraft / Instrument Control Panel Lamp / #cc61 sold
The North American T-6 Harvard AKA "the pilot maker" played an important role as a basic combat trainer during WW II and beyond. 1938 T-6 Harvard’s were first assembled in California USA. January 1940 a license was granted to the Noorduyn Aircraft Company of Canada who began producing the aircraft for the RCAF. Training schools were established by at Moose Jaw, Claresholm, Calgary and eventually Penhold, to instruct trainee pilots from Norway, Denmark, Italy, France, West Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Holland, and Great Britain. As of 1940, the required flights hours for combat pilots earning their wings had been cut from seven months to just 200 hours. Of those hours, 75 were logged in the AT-6. A total of 20,110 Harvard aircraft were built between 1938 and 1954, 3,370 of them in Canada. All instrument are lighted with low powered LED’s Nine red LEDs shine down from the underside of the panel for visual effect. Black iron re-purposed pipe and fittings are used to se