Temco Buckaroo TE-1A
The Temco Buckaroo was designed
in the late 1940s as an extremely low-cost trainer
for commercial and export markets. Temco's failure
to secure a USAF order for the Backaroo forced it to
turn to foreign governments to keep the production
lines going, yet only a few export orders materialized.
Production of the type did not top 20 examples, at
least 10 of which went to Saudi
Arabia.
Israel bought a single Buckaroo in
1948. In 1950 the aircraft was evaluated along with
the Fokker
Instructor and the de
Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk for possible use
as a trainer with the IAF flight school. Losing the
competion, the single Buckaroo was retired sometime
in late 1950 or early 1951.
Specification: Temco Buckaroo TE-1B
Type: two seat training monoplane.
Powerplant: one Continental C145-2H.
Performance: max speed - 255 km/h,
range - 750km.
Weights: empty - 590kg, max takeoff
- 835kg.
Dimensions: span - 8.89m, legth -
6.60m, height - 1.87m.
Armament: none.
Sources: IAF Inventory |