North American NA-16

NA-16/BT-9/NJ-1
Harvard I/NA-57/Sk 14
NA-16-2A/NA-42 "FAH-21" displayed outside at the Honduras Air Museum at Toncontín
General information
TypeTrainer
ManufacturerNorth American Aviation
Statusretired
Primary usersUnited States Army Air Corps
Number built1,935
History
Manufactured1935 to 1939
First flight1 April 1935
VariantsNorth American BT-9
CAC Wirraway
Developed intoNorth American T-6 Texan
North American P-64

The North American Aviation NA-16 is the first trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation, and was the beginning of a line of closely related North American trainer aircraft that would eventually number more than 17,000 examples, notably the T-6 Texan family.