North_American_A-27 Knowpia

A-27
	Two A-27s of the 17th Pursuit Squadron at Nichols Field, Philippines, in 1941.
Role	Ground attack
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	North American Aviation
First flight	June 1940
Primary user	United States Army Air Corps
Number built	10
Developed from	North American T-6 Texan

The North American Aviation A-27 is an attack version of the North American T-6 Texan. Ten aircraft were ordered by Thailand as NA-69 light attack aircraft.^[1]

Instead of being delivered to Thailand, the aircraft were taken over in October 1940 by the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to keep them out of Japanese hands and redesignated A-27 under the USAAC aircraft designation system. Assigned to Nichols Field in the Philippines and used as a trainer, all A-27s were destroyed within a month during the Japanese invasion of that country during World War II.

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and 1 x rear-mounted 30 caliber machine gun

^ ""North American AT-6 Texan"". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-06-24.

Hagedorn, Dan (2009). North American's T-6: A Definitive History of the World's Most Famous Trainer. North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press. ISBN 978-1-58007-124-6.