Variants of the Cessna T-37, built and unbuilt

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Cessna 405

Description: Four seat light transport similiar in appearance/concept to the Morane Saulnier MS 760. Large clamshelll canopy over the two by two seating in the nose section.
 

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Cessna 407

Description: Four place civilian light jet derived from the Cessna 405 design. Some references seem to interchange the 405 and 407 designations. More information on the Cessna 407 here: http://www.machdiamonds.com/cessna407.html
 
Cessna Tandem Navy Trainer (TNT)

Description: Designed to meet the TNT requirement for the US Navy (for which eventually the North American T-2 Buckeye got selected), Cessna proposed a tandem two seat variant based on the T-37.
 
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Cessna 407

Description: Four place civilian light jet derived from the Cessna 405 design. Some references seem to interchange the 405 and 407 designations. More information on the Cessna 407 here: http://www.machdiamonds.com/cessna407.html
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And the six-seat derivative, the Model 407A.
 
Cessna AT-37E/STOL and other strike variants

Description: Based upon the TNT variant of the T-37, Cessna proposed several different models as enhanced strike variants. One version incorporated wingtip lift pods. The AT-37E/STOL incorporated the tandem cockpit, larger engines, bigger flaps, and thrust reversers. The A-37D design was even more strike optimized with a single seat cockpit based on the TNT design, more powerful engines, and a centerline gun pod similar to what the RAF Hawks used.
 

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A-37/T-37 Dragonfly in Action
Aircraft Number 114
Squadron/Signal Publications
By Terry Love

Page 45 to 49: Proposed T-37/A-37 Variants

Cessna 405. 4 seater liaison jet

Cessna 407. Setember 1959. 6 seater liaison jet (The USAF selected the NA T-39 instead)

Tandem Navy Trainer (The NA Buckeye won the contract)

T-tail T-37 derivative to Next Generation Trainer (The T-46 won the contract)

VTOL trainer based on TNT fuselage (USN and USAF versions)

AT-37E/STOL strike/recon using the TNT fuselage

AT-37E/STOL strike/recon using the T-37 fuselage

Naval Instructional Trainer derivative from A-37

A-37D single seater based on TNT fuselage

T-37 USAF Thunderbird

AX (experience with A-37 was included but final design has nothing in common)

T-48 ( a replacement to T-37 after the T-46 cancellation) was a T-37B updated

Regards,
Antonio
 
AT-37E - is that the variant with JT15D engines?
 
Tilt-rotor conversion
 

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"AT-37E. Modifications to the TNT included: higher thrust engines, wing tip extensions, increased chord flaps and larger thrust reversers"

No description about type engine on Squadron/Signal
 
JAZZ,

this variant is awesome!, why the pic is identified as Bell?. It was a Bell-Cessna project?
Can you add more info?

Thanks,

Antonio
 
AT-37E pics
 

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Pometabla

Some of my collection of photos are poorly referenced, and I know little of this project, other than Bell was behind the conversion.

Photo does have a web site - bottom right hand corner - www.VSTOL.org which is I suggest you google as a start.

cheers JAZZ
 
Model 327-After modest successes with the Center Line Thrust (CLT) concept that Cessna pioneered in civil aircraft with the 1964 introduction of the six-place, fixed-gear 336 and subsequent retractable-gear 337 Skymasters, the Model 327, the "Baby Skymaster," was proposed in 1965.

The four-seat twin had cantilever wings and was powered by two 160 hp IO-320 engines. It first flew in December 1967, and 39 hours of flight testing was completed before the project was canceled from lack of interest in 1968. The prototype continued to fly, however, working in a joint Langley Research Center/Cessna Aircraft Company project on noise reduction and being used as a test bed for wind tunnel evaluation of ducted and free propellers.
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Found out more on the Baby Skymaster- it was designed to compete with the Piper Twin Comanche, but only one was built, making its first flight 4 Dec 1967 and registered as N3769C. Performance and cost issues limited the planes appeal, but its sleek lines in comparison to the Model 337 Skymaster were attractive, sometimes evoking the lines of the later Cessna 177 Cardinal line. The single example ended up with NASA as a full scale wind tunnel testbed.
 
Hi,

there are two projects,one was four seat Cessna T-37 with two J69 turbojets
and the anther the early concept for Northamerican Sabreliner T-39 aircraft
with two J85s.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%200937.html
 

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Especially the 4-seat T-37 is an interesting find me, thanks, Hesham !
Although, you've deleted the third of the aircaft shown on this site ... ;)
But Cessna would have been a bit late !
 
Four seat T-37 civil variant should be the model 407.
(1 built)
Military four seater was model 405-project only.

source : Squadron Signal series.
 
JAZZ said:
Tilt-rotor conversion
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pometablava said:
this variant is awesome!, why the pic is identified as Bell?. It was a Bell-Cessna project?
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D-182C twin duct testbed; trailrotor T-37 COIN conversion project (1956)
 
Bell apparently fancied the Cessna T-37 as a basis for their projected VTOL projects... as evidenced in the unbuilt X-14C...
 

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I've found some more info on the T-48.
It was to be a T-37B with structural strengthening, new tail, pressurised cockpit and to be powered with two 1,330lb Garrett F109-GA-100 turbofans. It was shelved in favour of the T-37 SLEP with new canopy, tailplane skins, dorsal fin mounts and new front wing spar carry-through structure and upgraded spars.
 
Hey nice find with that artist work of the Bell X-14C load-out weapons option Stéphane

Very interesting and adds to the perspective of the artist impression you also posted!!

Regards
Pioneer
 
A few more pictures from squadron/signal publications Aircraft Number 114 “A-37/T-37 Dragonfly in action” by Terry Love. Certainly not ALL the pictures of T-37 spin offs in this great little monogram.
 

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Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French about the Cessna 407 light executive/liaison jet "project" and its mock-up......

The article comes from the 10th October 1959 issue of Les Ailes......

Terry (Caravellarella)
 
Hy all,
I found in a box three pics (unfortunately without any date or note written on the back) that I vaguely remember as depicting some Cessna projects dating back to around 1970.
One is surely a Cessna Model 318/T-37 modified from side by side to tandem seating to answer a Navy requirement (perhaps a contender of the Beech T-34C Turbo-Mentor? The timeframe could be the same...).
The second, and weirdest of all, is a V/STOL derivative of the previous airframe, but with USAF markings: perhaps Cessna was answering a requirement for a V/STOL trainer?
The last is a light attack aircraft on the same line of the AT-37D/A-37B Dragonfly but with some redesign, an underfuselage gunpod (perhaps for a 20-mm M61 Vulcan) and more robust warload: could it be a proposal for some iteration of the AX contest?
Nico
 

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Here is a pic of the Cessna 407, a development of the T-37. This is a mock-up.
 

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The light jet project posted by boxkite in #17 and Maveric in #38 looks like the 407 after
a "design review". Could be basically the same project, I think.
 
...the "407" in color...
 

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Cessna 405
 

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I have the cutaway drawing this project in free interpretaton...! for interesting
 
Speculative cutaway Cessna Model 407, modified by Motocar
 

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lark said:
Four seat T-37 civil variant should be the model 407.
(1 built)
Military four seater was model 405-project only.

source : Squadron Signal series.
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Six-seat civil version was Model 407A; data from Cessna archives viewed long, long ago when I worked there (like 45 years ago).
 
From Cessna Warbirds.
 

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I hope this is the right thread.

I have found a photo of South Vietnamese A-37B apparently carry two Ryan Firebee recce drones over the wingtips. Date is supposed to be 1968. Can anybody give more information about it and its operations?

AFAIK during that period drones were carried by much larger aircraft like the DC-130.
 

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dan_inbox said:
I hope this is the right thread.

I have found a photo of South Vietnamese A-37B apparently carry two Ryan Firebee recce drones over the wingtips. Date is supposed to be 1968. Can anybody give more information about it and its operations?

AFAIK during that period drones were carried by much larger aircraft like the DC-130.
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It's a Photoshop of a picture of a US A-37 without any drones.
 

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