Walkaround - Naval Aviation Factory N3N Yellow Peril Bu.42782

 What:
Walkaround - Naval Aviation Factory N3N-3 Yellow Peril Bu.42782
Where:
Carl A. Spaatz Field / Reading Regional Airport, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
When:
World War II Weekend, June 4-6, 2010.




Here is a walkaround of a Naval Aviation Factory N3N, the Yellow Peril, as the cadets called it back in WWII. This dash-3 example, Bu.No.42782 (civil reg. N44718), is owned by Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, and is in impecable condition, attending several air shows every year.

The N3N seems overlooked in favor of his stablemate successor, the Boeing PT-13/N2S Caydet, and the two are often mistaken for each other. The Yellow Peril played a very important role during pre-war and WWII years, training thousands of pilots, and still is not as well documented as other aircraft of its era (neither well represented in modeling industry). 

General views:


Wings and fuselage:

 
Tail:


Landing gear:


Engine:



I hope you find these photos useful somehow. If you have any interesting information about the history of this aircraft, please drop me a line.


Rato Marczak © 2011