Vultee BT-13 Valiant

BT-13 Valiant
A restored Vultee BT-13 over an Airshow in Dallas, 2019
General information
Type	Trainer
Manufacturer	Vultee Aircraft
Primary users	United States Army Air Forces United States Navy
Number built	9,525
History
Introduction date	June 1940
First flight	March 1939

The Vultee BT-13 Valiant is an American World War II-era basic (a category between primary and advanced) trainer aircraft built by Vultee Aircraft for the United States Army Air Corps, and later US Army Air Forces. A subsequent variant of the BT-13 in USAAC/USAAF service was known as the BT-15 Valiant, while an identical version for the US Navy was known as the SNV and was used to train naval aviators for the US Navy and its sister services, the US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard.^[1]