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Consolidated PT-1 Trusty

first flight unknown· primary trainer

🎖️ military piston
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. 11th School Group Consolidated PT-1 trainers Brooks Field TX: United States Air Force· Public domain
  2. 2. AL218-065 Consolidated PT-1: SDASM Archives· No restrictions
  3. 3. Consolidated PT-1 Trusty at National Museum of the USAF (071108-F-1234S-001): U.S. Air Force photo· Public domain
  4. 4. Consolidated PT-1 Trusty at National Museum of the USAF (071108-F-1234S-002): U.S. Air Force photo· Public domain
  5. 5. Consolidated PT-1 Trusty at National Museum of the USAF (S Kaiser): S Kaiser· CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. 6. Consolidated PT-1 Trusty BelowRFront Early Years NMUSAF 25Sep09 (14576853696): Valder137· CC BY 2.0
  7. 7. Consolidated PT-1 Trusty, National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio, USA. (43715758485): Roland Turner from Birmingham, Great Britain· CC BY-SA 2.0
  8. 8. Joe Dunkel jumping from Cosolidated PT-1, 1921: SDASM Archives· No restrictions
  9. 9. N1926M Consolidated PT-1 Trusty C-N AC27150 - San Diego Air & Space Museum (9470755690): Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA· CC BY-SA 2.0
  10. 10. N1962M Consolidated PT-1 (51778979179): Ian Gratton from Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, England· CC BY 2.0
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Consolidated PT-1 Trusty, photo 1 of 10
1/10 United States Air Force· Public domain

what is it?

The Consolidated PT-1 Trusty (company designation Model 1) is a biplane primary trainer used by the United States Army Air Service (USAAS) in the 1920s.

How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.5 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 148 km/htop speed
  • size 1,169 kgmax take-off weight
  • built 221made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

  • Wingspan of 10.5 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight
—
introduced
1921
number built
221
role
primary trainer
makers
Consolidated Aircraft
engines
1× Wright-Hispano E
crew
2
length
8.5 m
wingspan
10.5 m
height
3 m
max take-off weight
1,169 kg
top speed
148 km/h
cruise speed
127 km/h
range
—
ceiling
4,100 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q662023, Wikipedia: Consolidated PT-1 Trusty (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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