Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor Pictures from Rocky Mountain Airshow

View Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor Pictures from Rocky Mountain Airshow. The photos in the gallery were taken on August 15, 2015. This Beechcraft T-34C, “Turbo Mentor” is owned by the United States Navy.

Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor Pictures from Rocky Mountain Airshow

About the Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor

This Beechcraft T-34C, “Turbo Mentor” has a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 engine. The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is an American propeller-driven, single-engined, military trainer aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza. The earlier versions of the T-34, dating from around the late 1940s to the 1950s, were piston-engined. These were eventually succeeded by the upgraded T-34C Turbo-Mentor, powered by a turboprop engine. The T-34 remains in service more than six decades after it was first designed.

The T-34 was the brainchild of Walter Beech, who developed it as the Beechcraft Model 45 private venture at a time when there was no defense budget for a new trainer model. Beech hoped to sell it as an economical alternative to the North American T-6/SNJ Texan, then in use by all services of the U.S. military.

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