Columbus clouds T-6 Texan II (V2) vintage style military aviation poster artwork by – Squadron Posters!
Columbus AFB was established in 1941 asAir Corps Advanced Flying School, Columbus, Mississippi and has been training Air Force pilots since World War II. About half the pilots in the Air Force today went through basic and primary flight training at Columbus, home to the busiest military air traffic control facility in the world.
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engine turboprop aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company (which became Hawker Beechcraft and later Beechcraft Defense Company, and was bought by Textron Aviation in 2014). A trainer aircraft based on the Pilatus PC-9, the T-6 has replaced the United States Air Force’s Cessna T-37B Tweet and the United States Navy’s T-34C Turbo Mentor.