The Tora Tora Tora fleet of converted BT-13 Valiant and T-6 Texan trainers took to the skies for a Pearl Harbor exhibition during an airshow at McChord AFB in 2010. Mount Rainier was in perfect form playing the role of Mount Fuji, and the visiting USAF Thunderbirds demonstration team made the whole thing seem like a replay of the 1980 sci-fi movie The Final Countdown.
Individual planes include:
- SNJ-6 Texan #121-43036 as US Army plane (previously zero AI-118)
- T-6 Harvard Mk.4 #CCF4-83 as Kate 310 (with torpedo)
- AT-6D Texan #43766 as Kate AI-313 (with torpedo)
- SNJ-5 Texan #84875 as Kate AII-356
- Harvard MK IV #CCF4-241 as Zero AI-111
- Harvard MK IV #CCF4-158 as Zero AI-112
- Harvard MK IV #CCF4-117 as Zero AI-113
- T-6 Harvard Mk.4 #CCF4-199 as Zero AI-114
Tora Tora Tora
McChord AFB 2008
Tora Tora Tora
McChord AFB 2010
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