page_title: Beechcraft T-34 Mentor
section_title: Variants
hierarchical_section_title: Beechcraft T-34 Mentor / Variants
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Navy Beech T-34B Mentor (BuNo 140702) in flight. The tail code "2S" identifies Naval Auxiliary Air Station Saufley Field near Pensacola, Florida (USA), where Training Squadron VT-1 operated the T-34B until 1976.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: YT-34
  Prototype, three built.
  T-34A
  US Air Force trainer. Replaced by the Cessna T-37 around 1960 (450 built).
  T-34B
  US Navy trainer. Used as a trainer until 1976, when VT-1 and VT-5 were decommissioned. It was replaced by the T-34C (423 built by Beechcraft).  T-34Bs were flown by pilots assigned to the Navy Recruiting Command until the mid-1990s.
  YT-34C
  Two T-34Bs were fitted with turboprop engines, and were used as T-34C prototypes.
  T-34C Turbo-Mentor
  Two-seat primary trainer, fitted with a turboprop engine.
  T-34C-1
  Equipped with hardpoints for training or light attack, able to carry 1,200 lb (540 kg) of weapons on four underwing pylons. The armament could include flares, incendiary bombs, rocket or gun pods and antitank missiles. Widely exported.
  Turbo-Mentor 34C
  Civilian version
  Allison Turbine Mentor
  Conversion of surplus T-34 Mentors to be powered by Allison Model 250 turboprop engines.
  Model 73 Jet Mentor
  Powered by a 920 lbf (4.09 kN) Continental J69-T-9 turbojet engine. The sole aircraft first flew on 18 December 1955.
caption: A U.S. Navy T-34B assigned to NAS Saufley Field in the 1950s.
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