[ARC5] Aircraft for sale - radios

[Mike Morrow]

> I have no interest in this but enjoyed the photographs.
> Wonder if any ARC-5s made it in T-28s?
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/north-american-T28A-aircraft-/291950615508

Or instead, a SCR-274-N perhaps, since those picured are USAF T-28As?  That would be very unlikely, IMHO.  The early 1950s USAF T-28A units probably used the VHF AN/ARC-3, with most later aircraft using the UHF AN/ARC-27.  The USN T-28B and C probably used the UHF AN/ARC-27.

WRT A.R.C. gear, the small USN T-34B primary trainers at NAS Corpus Christi used a UHF version of the A.R.C. Type 12 (similar to the USAF AN/ARC-60) when I got some training in them in 1972.  They didn't need much in the way of good performence communications, so the A.R.C. gear was adequate.

In 1972, the TS-2A trainer version of the twin-engine S-2 Tracker at NAS CC carried the AN/ARN-6 LF/MF ADF, AN/ARC-27 UHF, AN/ARC-2 HF, and...AN/ARC-5 in the form of a R-23A/ARC-5 LF/MF Range Receiver.  One of the aviation electronics technicians told me it was very hard to get replacement parts for any of that gear in 1972.

Mike / KK5F