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BT/SNV
VULTEE AIRCRAFT - DESIGNATIONS |
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V-74: Vultee designation
BT-13: U.S. Army Basic Trainer
BT-15: U.S. Army variant with Wright R-975 radial engine
SNV: U.S. Navy designation
USAAC = United States Army Air Corps,
reorganized on June 20, 1941 as:
USAAF = United States Army Air Forces
FTC = Flying Training Command,
1 Southeast Training Center
2 Gulf Coast Training Center
3 West Coast Training Center
On July 31, 1943, these became
respectively the Eastern, Central and
Western Flying Training Commands
TTC = Technical Training Command combined with FTC
in July 1943 to form:
AAFTC = Army Air Forces Training Command
BTC = Basic Training Course:
9 to 10-week program, minimum 70 hours of
flying, 94 hour ground school, 47 military
training.
Classes designated by year-sequence:
42-A, -B, etc.
ACBFS = Air Corps Basic Flying School reorganized
on June 20, 1941 as:
AAFBFS= Army Air Forces Basic Flying School, conducted
at the following fields and academies, not all
active at the same time. (Known field codes
letters, as signed in 1941 but not always used on
aircraft, indicated in parentheses.)
Center [code(s)]
Bainbridge Field, Georgia SE
Bush & Daniel Fields, Augusta, Georgia SE [A}
Chico Filed, California WC [M} *
Cochran Field, Macon Georgia SE [C]
Coffeyville Field, Kansas GC
Courtland Field, Alabama SE
Curtis Field, Brady, Texas GC
Durant Field, Oklahoma GC
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