The Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) was an aircraft procurement program of the United States in the 1990s by the United States Air Force and United States Navy, a merger of 1980s era training aircraft programs. The winner was declared in 1995 and entered service a few years later as the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II. The program was partly a result of the cancelled Fairchild T-46 of the 1980s.
A USAF T-6A Texan II at Laughlin AFB, Texas
Navy T-6B Texan IIs belonging to Training Air Wing 5 out of NAS Whiting Field
Naval Air Station Whiting Field is a United States Navy base located near Milton, Florida, with some outlying fields near Navarre, Florida, in south and central Santa Rosa County, and is one of the Navy's two primary pilot training bases. NAS Whiting Field provides training for U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force student pilots, as well as those of several allied nations. NAS Whiting Field is home to Training Air Wing Five.
TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopters assigned to Training Air Wing Five at NAS Whiting Field
T-28s from VT-2 at Whiting field in 1967.
T-28B from Whiting Field in 1967
Mechanics working on a Texan trainer, c. 1943