Allison T56
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The Allison T56 is an American single-shaft, modular design military turboprop with a 14-stage axial flow compressor driven by a four-stage turbine. It was originally developed by the Allison Engine C
A T56 mounted on a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules receives maintenance.
Allison T56-A1 turboprop engine cutaway, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Grumman E-2 Hawkeye
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The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable, tactical airborne early warning aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s an
Allison T56
…fitted to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, the T56 was also installed on the Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), Grumman E-2 Hawkeye airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, and Grumman C-2 Greyhound carrier onboard delivery (COD) aircraft, as well as civilian airliners such as the…
An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye conducts a flight test
A Grumman E-2A Hawkeye in flight in the early 1960s
An E-2C Hawkeye assigned to VAW-120 flies over Jacksonville, Florida
Radar operations inside an E-2C of VAW-115