Identification need

[Nico]

Hi boys,
I have to download this .jpg in the appropriate folder but I'm unable to correctly identify the plane.
It seems to me a target drone conversion of a Boeing fighter...
Many thanks
Nico

 

[Arjen]

It looks like a modified Curtiss P-3 Hawk
fact sheet http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2020
image from http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060831-F-1234P-013.jpg
<edit> it has a small diameter radial, could this be the elusive P&W Wasp Junior powered XP-21?
Wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

[Kiltonge]

Douglas O-2 converted to Type A-4 aerial target


http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app1/a-target.html

 

[Arjen]

Image from kiltonge's link

 

[Jos Heyman]

In 1940 15 BT-2Bs and two BT-2BIs were fitted with tricycle gear and remote control equipment. They were initially designated as BT-2BR and BT-2BG but were eventually designated as A-4 aerial targets. By June 1941 they were no longer in the inventory.

 

[Nico]

Many thanks to all of you.
I had no doubt about your knowledge...
Nico