Special Hobby 72220 TT-1 Pinto Civilian version

The Temco TT Pinto was an American production training aircraft with a full metal spine-wing structure from the Cold War period. The drive was provided by a single turbojet engine Teledyne CAE YJ69-T-9 . The flight of the prototype took place in 1956, and the machine served in the US armed forces only in the years 1959-1960. In total, only 15 aircraft of this type were built.

Originally, the Temco TT Pinto was developed for the needs of the US Air Force, which in the early 1950s demanded a new two-person jet trainer. The machine, however, lost the competition for a contract with the Air Force with the Cessna T-37 Tweet. Then, however, the Temco TT Pinto became interested in the US Navy, which decided to purchase 15 pieces of this machine. Despite the fact that the TT Pinto had good flight characteristics and good performance, for reasons that were not entirely clear, in 1960 it was withdrawn from the line, and all its copies were sold by the US Navy.