page_title: United States Army Air Forces
section_title: Trainer
hierarchical_section_title: United States Army Air Forces / Organization and equipment / Aircraft / Trainer
caption_attribution_description: Two U.S. Army Air Forces North American AT-6C-NT Texan trainers (s/n 42-43925, 42-43929) in flight near Luke Field, Arizona (USA), in 1943.
context_page_description: The United States Army Air Forces was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II. It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and is the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force, today one of the six armed forces of the United States. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which on 2 March 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces: the Army Ground Forces, the Services of Supply, and the Army Air Forces. Each of these forces had a commanding general who reported directly to the Army Chief of Staff.
  The AAF administered all parts of military aviation formerly distributed among the Air Corps, General Headquarters Air Force, and the ground forces' corps area commanders, and thus became the first air organization of the U.S. Army to control its own installations and support personnel.
context_section_description: AT-6 Texan
  AT-11 Kansan
  Lockheed AT-18 Hudson
  Cessna AT-8/AT-17 Bobcat
  Vultee BT-13/BT-15 Valiant
  Boeing-Stearman PT-13/17 Kaydet
  Ryan PT-16/PT-21/PT-22
  Fairchild PT-19/PT-23/PT-26
caption: USAAF AT-6Cs near Luke Field, 1943
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