The Fuji T-3 is a primary military trainer aircraft used by the Japan Air Self Defense Force, manufactured by Fuji Heavy Industries from Japan. It is a derivative of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor but with a supercharged 340 hp Lycoming IGSO-480 engine in a different nose cowling and a three bladed propeller. Its first flight was in September 1974 at Utsunomiya. By 1982, some 50 T-3 had been manufactured.
Length 7,94 m; wing span 10 m.
Fuji T-3
This aircraft coded 11-5538 has the typical JASDF scheme. It was seen in the Ishikawa museum in Komatsu, Japan.
Photographed March 2024 by Meindert de Vreeze (c) Copyright!
Fuji T-3
This aircraft coded 11-5547 has the typical JASDF scheme. It was seen in the Aichi museum in Nagoya, Japan.
Photographed March 2024 by Meindert de Vreeze (c) Copyright!
A plastic scale model of the T-3 was released in 1/72 by Hasegawa.
This walk around page was first published June 2024 by M. de Vreeze; note the Copyright!