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T-39 Sabreliner

The T-39 Sabreliner is a multipurpose low-wing, twin-jet trainer. It is used to train Navy and Marine Corps flight officers.

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The T-39N "Sabreliner" aircraft, built by Sabreliner Corporation, is a low-wing, twin-jet monoplane with a pod mounted Pratt & Whitney JT12A engine on each side of the aft fuselage. It is a multipurpose low-wing, twin-jet aircraft. The 15 T-39Ns ? derivatives of the commercial Sabre model 265-40 ? are used for training undergraduate military flight officer students in radar navigation and airborne radar - intercept procedures. These aircraft replaced Cessna T -47As during the early 1990s. The eight T -39Gs ? derivatives of the commercial Sabre model 265-60 ? are used for student non-radar training. These aircraft began replacing Air Force T-1A Jayhawks in Navy training squadrons in mid-1999.