Fleetwings PQ-12 explained

The Fleetwings PQ-12 , company designation Fleetwings Model 36, was a 1940s American manned aerial-target designed and built by Fleetwings for the United States Army Air Corps.

Design and development

The PQ-12 was a single-engined monoplane with a 2250NaN0 Lycoming O-435 piston engine. It had a fixed nose-wheel landing gear, twin vertical tails and an open-cockpit was provided for manned flight. Instead of the optional pilot a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb could be carried in the cockpit. The original prototype was cancelled but a modified variant was built followed by eight test aircraft, although an order for 40 production aircraft was placed it was subsequently cancelled.

Variants

XPQ-12
  • Prototype, not built.
    XPQ-12A
  • Modified prototype, one-built.
    YPQ-12A
  • Test and evaluation aircraft, eight-built.
    PQ-12A
  • Production variant, 40 ordered but none were built.

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