The A-37 is arguably the “purest” military aircraft to roll off Cessna’s assembly lines, in the sense that the jet was derived from a military-specific jet-trainer, the T-37 Tweet.

In 1952, when the Air Force needed a trainer to transition fighter pilots into the Jet Age, Cessna entered a concept it called the Model 318 in the design competition—and won. Designated T-37 by ...

Consider the Fairchild Republic T-46, designed in the early 1980s to replace the Cessna T-37 Tweet as the U.S. Air Force’s primary trainer. This should not have been hard. Trainers don’t have ...