The US Air Force has taken delivery of its first L3Harris/Air Tractor OA-1K Skyraider II special mission turboprop.

Here, a Douglas A-1H Skyraider of the 602nd Special Operations ... The aircraft has received criticism for using a propeller instead of a jet engine. Some media outlets have referred to it as ...

By the Vietnam War, the A-1 was technologically outdated, yet still effective. The U.S. military has long relied upon jet engines for its fighter and attack aircraft. As early as ...

The Skyraider II will take on global missions ... shuffle is the fact that AFSOC has employed its fair share of single-engine prop planes, such as the U-28A Draco and the A-29 Super Tucano.

The name was chosen in honor of the A-1 Skyraider, a single-seat attack aircraft made by the Douglas Aircraft Company ... single Pratt & Whitney turboprop engine that is capable of delivering ...