RMP ARCHIVE
No. 3109. Ford XB-906 (X9652 c/n XB-906-1)
Photograph from US National Archives
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This aircraft was derived from a 5-AT-C to be entered in a design competition. It featured a single pilot's seat, two open-air gunners' pits with two machine guns each, internal bomb racks and a modified tail. It was flown for the first time in April 1931, but crashed on September 19, 1931, during testing at the factory, killing Ford's chief test pilot Leroy Manning. |
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Created December 12, 2003