Next test question: What was the last piston-engined aircraft to be used in combat?

"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message
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(Kirk Stant) wrote:
What was the last piston-engined airplane (not aircraft - lets keep
the helo's out of this one) to employ weapons in A/A or A/G combat
(guns, bombs, rockets, nukes, whatever). Where and when?

That's hard to say... most nations have armed, prop-driven border patrol
aircraft that are regularly used. How about those AC-130's used by Colombia
to fight the drug cartels? Or those
things the Peruvians use to fight the Sgining Path?

The OP specified piston engined not propellor driven.
AC-130's are turboprops.

Keith

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Keith Willshaw wrote:


"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message
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That's hard to say... most nations have armed, prop-driven border patrol
aircraft that are regularly used. How about those AC-130's used by Colombia
to fight the drug cartels? Or those
things the Peruvians use to fight the Sgining Path?

The OP specified piston engined not propellor driven.
AC-130's are turboprops.

How about those armed Cessna Skymasters they use?