The North American T-28 Trojan was designed to replace the world famous T-6 Harvard trainer. It entered service in the early 1950s and eventually also served as a close support ground attack and reconnaissance aeroplane.

North American was awarded the contract for production of the T-28 to replace its earlier T-6 trainer and the first of two prototypes flew on 28 September 1949.

The USAF ordered the T-28A in 1950 and the US Navy ordered it in the T-28B version in 1952.

In all 489 T-28Bs were ordered and then a further 299 T-28Cs which had an arrester hook for carrier training.

In 1962 many T-28s were converted to T-28D standard to carry weapons for counter-insurgency work and later again many were converted by Sud Aviation in France for close support, patrol and reconnaissance work with the name Fennec.

This model represents a T-28B of ATU-800, Corpus Christi, c.1955.

Heller 1:72 kit with Microscale decals completed by Leigh Edmonds in December 1998.