LetLetLet ~ Warplanes

Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: No.1 on October 18, 2014, 12:20:14 PM

Title: U-3B
Post by: No.1 on October 18, 2014, 12:20:14 PM

Proper USAF "Blue Canoe" paint scheme on it - it once flew in this scheme in the USAF.

Title: Re: U-3B
Post by: Second Air Force on October 18, 2014, 07:32:31 PM

We had a straight-tail U-3 at the VFM museum when I was still involved there. This later model is better looking in USAF scheme!

Title: Re: U-3B
Post by: No.1 on October 18, 2014, 07:50:27 PM

Thanks for info mate :)

Title: Re: U-3B
Post by: Jicehem on October 25, 2014, 10:26:03 PM

Hello mate,

Thanks for these pictures.

I also knew this plane as "Cessna L-27B Administrator". If I remember well it became U-3B in 1962.

Jicehem :-wave

Title: Re: U-3B
Post by: No.1 on October 25, 2014, 10:39:50 PM

True, this is military designation :)

Title: Re: U-3B
Post by: Nico Braas on October 25, 2014, 11:55:21 PM

'U' stood for 'Utility'. U-2 must have received this type designation just to hide its real purpose as a spying plane!