(It’s the mission that makes life interesting.) Plus, you’ve already had about a year and a half of flight instruction before strapping on a Hawg, plus an exhaustive run of A-10 ground school and simulator training. ‘Fortunately, the Hawg is a fairly easy jet to fly. Hence when a pilot flies a Hog for the first time, the sortie is made by means of a standard single-seat A-10.Īnd there it is… the only two-seat Hawg in existence. These trainers were to be designated A-10B, but the program was canceled before any aircraft were modified. The N/AW version did not interest the USAF or export customers.īesides the A-10 N/AW, the USAF investigated the conversion of a limited number of A-10As into two-place trainer aircraft. It included a second seat for a weapons system officer responsible for electronic countermeasures (ECM), navigation and target acquisition.
The N/AW was developed by Fairchild from the first Demonstration Testing and Evaluation (DT&E) A-10 for consideration by the USAF. One experimental two-seat A-10 Night Adverse Weather (N/AW) version was built by converting an A-10A. The Warthog or Hog (as the A-10 is dubbed by its aircrews) is specially designed for close air support of ground forces. The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin turbofan engine, straight wing jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic for the US Air Force (USAF). You see, they only ever made one two-seat A-10, and that one is sitting in a museum,’ Lynn Taylor, former A-10 pilot.
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