North American F-86 Sabre - special variants and projects

Your model looks more like 'early F-100' than 'late F-86'. The advanced day fighter featured a low-set tailplane and high-set speed brakes so I think yours may be the former. Lovely find however!
 
What about the 2-seater TF-86F trainer?
Apparently only a pair were built in the USA, but Mitsubishi built more Sabre trainers.
How many 2-seaters did Mitsubishi build?
How long did they serve?
 
riggerrob said:
Apparently only a pair were built in the USA, but Mitsubishi built more Sabre trainers.
How many 2-seaters did Mitsubishi build?
How long did they serve?
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Are you talking about the Fuji T-1?
The design is largely based on the F-86.
66 examples were built. And they served from 1960 to 2006 with JASF.
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riggerrob said:
Was that based upon the straight wing from P-51H?
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Maybe inspired by the P-51 wing would be a better description. The NA-140 was a development of the NA-134 which was put into limited production as the (X)FJ-1 Fury. But whereas the FJ-1 attached its mainplanes to a separate fuselage centre section via bolts orientated fore-and-aft, the NA-140 joined them along the centreline (very P-51) and attached this assembly into the fuselage structure via vertically-orientated bolts. The NA-140 emerged as a similar design to the NA-134 and also retained a number of features inherited from the P-51, including the three-colour wingtip recognition lights. These remained part of the NA-140 design until deleted in August 1946.
 

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