NA-64/NA-64 P-2/Yale | |
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Restored North American NA-64 Yale at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario | |
Role | Trainer |
Manufacturer | North American Aviation |
First flight | 12 February 1940[1] |
Introduction | 1940 |
Retired | 1 October 1946 (RCAF)[1][2] 1949 (Armee de l'air) |
Status | Warbird |
Primary users | Royal Canadian Air Force French Air Force French Navy Luftwaffe |
Produced | 1940 |
Number built | 230 |
Developed from | North American BT-14 |
Developed into | North American Harvard |
The North American NA-64 (NA-64 P-2 or NAA-64 P-2 in French service, Yale in Canadian service) is a low-wing single piston engine monoplane advanced trainer aircraft that was built for the French Air Force and French Navy, served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and with the Luftwaffe as a captured aircraft during World War II.