AT-6

The AT-6. Flexibility for the world’s unpredictability.

In a world where unpredictability is commonplace It’s also purpose-built for the Light Attack and Armed

and flexibility is critical, Beechcraft delivers robust Reconnaissance mission and leverages billions of

purpose-built solutions for irregular warfare and investment dollars in the U.S. Air Force’s T-6, A-10C

counterinsurgency. Enter the Beechcraft AT-6 Light and MC-12 platforms. This translates to lower cost

Attack and Armed Reconnaissance aircraft. The AT-6 and makes the AT-6 available at a fraction of the

outperforms the competition and provides a full suite acquisition, sustainment and training costs of other

of synchronized, ground-based training capabilities traditional combat aircraft.

as well as an established global logistics infrastructure.

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The AT-6 builds on decades of
supporting military mission needs.
For more than 80 years, Beechcraft has been trusted Now Beechcraft offers the AT-6. It’s built with the

as a supplier of world-class training aircraft. It’s a same pedigree as the reliable and rugged T-6 Texan II

responsibility we don’t take lightly. From the time the trainer, but outfitted with a more powerful engine,

company opened the doors in 1932, it has delivered a full complement of self-protection measures, a

more than 14,500 aircraft to armed forces around the robust combat communications suite, an advanced

world. During World War II, the company has produced ISR targeting and sensor pod, and integrated with

more than 7,400 aircraft for Allied forces. a full complement of light attack weapons.

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Designed and built for the warfighter.
Airframe and Powerplant
• Pratt & Whitney PT6A-68D 1,600 SHP
turboprop engine
• Six MIL-STD-1760 capable external
stores hardpoints
• Propeller optimized for Light Attack
• Four external fuel tank stations
Cockpit
• A-10C Lockheed Martin Mission System
• F-16 HOTAS with three MFDs in each cockpit
• CMC Glass Cockpit and Flight
Management System
• HUD with integrated navigation and
weapons delivery
• WAAS/LPV GPS Precision Approach System
• Martin Baker MKUS16LA 0/0 ejection seat
• Fully Night Vision Compatible Cockpit
• Scorpion Helmet-Mounted Cueing System
• Removable mass media device allows
synchronized flight planning and 4-ship
3-D playback
• Integrated moving map
Communications Suite
• Two ARC-210 radios providing secure
multi-band communications
• Independent VHF radio
• Beyond Line-of-Sight Iridium satellite radio
for data and voice communications
• Exportable data-link with KU-band
full-motion video
Aircraft Self-Protection Equipment
• Armored protection for cockpit, engine
and fuel collector tank
• Integrated Missile Warning and
Countermeasures Systems
Targeting and Surveillance Sensor Suite
• L-3 Wescam MX-15Di EO/IR Sensor
• IR with 4-step zoom
• Color daylight camera
• Laser designator
• Laser illuminator
• Laser rangefinder

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The AT-6 outperforms the competition.
Capable Sustainable
A multi-role aircraft, the AT-6 is capable of meeting Beechcraft’s full-spectrum, tailored logistics support

a wide spectrum of warfighter missions including: provides USAF-standard O-Level maintenance that

close air support, forward air control, combat search uses a state-of-the-art information data system. This

and rescue, armed reconnaissance and airborne ensures maximum operational availability of the AT-6

interdiction. The AT-6 fills a number of peacetime at the lowest sustainment cost.

roles, including maritime patrol, disaster relief and

Interoperable
border security.
The AT-6 is the only Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance

Affordable aircraft with proven interoperability in U.S. and NATO

In addition to low operating costs and low life-cycle command and control environments. While it routinely

costs, the AT-6 shares 85% commonality with the operates in interoperable missions, it also has

T-6 Texan II, leveraging vast economies of scale the autonomous capability to detect, identify and

associated with an 800+ aircraft fleet. Beechcraft’s prosecute targets.

proven ground-based training system provider, CAE,

maintains a worldwide simulator fleet of devices

ensuring realistic mission training and rehearsal at

minimal cost.

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Mission ready today.
Every pilot in the United States Air Force (USAF) and COIN/Irregular Warfare
the United States Navy (USN) trains in a Beechcraft • Close Air Support
• Forward Air Control-Airborne
aircraft. More than 50 foreign military nations use
• Armed Reconnaissance
Beechcraft as trainers, weaponized trainers and
• Strike Coordination and Reconnaissance
special mission aircraft. • Airborne Interdiction
• Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Training
• Undergraduate Pilot Training
Homeland Defense/Homeland Security
• Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals
• Low-Speed Intercept
• Joint Terminal Attack Controller Training
• Border and Port Security Operations
• Collaborative Training
• Littoral Maritime Patrol Operations

Civil Support/Consequence Management

• Disaster Area Imagery and Reconnaissance
• Search and Rescue

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State-of-the-art weapons integration
for the Light Attack mission.
The AT-6 sets the standard by employing a broad
range of weapons that no other light attack aircraft
can match. The AT-6 has demonstrated high-end
net-centric and light attack capabilities, as well as full
compatibility with U.S. and NATO Joint Terminal Attack
Controller systems designed to meet the spectrum of
needs for the dynamic Light Attack mission. The AT-6
is capable of operating over 30 weapons and fuel
configurations. That gives the war fighter the flexibility
to tailor the weapons configurations to efficiently and
effectively complete the mission. It is also the first
fixed-wing aircraft to successfully employ 2.75" laser-
guided rockets.
AT-6 weapons capabilities include:
• HMP-400 .50-Caliber Guns
• Practice Bombs
• Mk-81 (250 lb.) General-Purpose Bomb
• Mk-82 (500 lb.) General-Purpose Bomb
• GBU-12 (500 lb.) Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb
• GBU-58 (250 lb.) Paveway II Laser-Guided Bomb
• GBU-49 (500 lb.) Enhanced Paveway II
GPS/Laser-Guided Bomb
• GBU-59 (250 lb.) Enhanced Paveway II
GPS/Laser-Guided Bomb
• APKWS 2.75" Laser-Guided Rockets
• TALON 2.75" Laser-Guided Rockets
• GATR 2.75" Laser-Guided Rockets
• AGM-114 Hellfire Laser-Guided Missiles
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AT-6

The world’s best platform has the world’s best support.

High-performing. Reliable. Tailored to your operational needs. Shouldn’t the same characteristics that Inquire about the Beechcraft AT-6:
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define your Beechcraft fleet also define the support that keeps it operating? Beechcraft Corporation’s

Global Mission Support is the only trusted partner that can incorporate unprecedented insight

from millions of flight hours, real-world intelligence from thousands of operating aircraft, and the

convergence of practical skills from a global network of tip-to-tail support for your fleet.
SPECIFICATIONS STANDARD METRIC

AIRCRAFT CHARACTERISTICS
Length 33 ft 4 in 10.16 m
Height 10 ft 8 in 3.25 m
Wingspan 34 ft 3 in (10.4 m)
Wingspan 34 ft 2 in 10.4 m
Wing Area 179 ft² 16.60 m²
Engine 1,600 shp 1,600 shp
Type Turboprop Turboprop
Maximum Takeoff Weight (MGTOW) 10,000 lb 4,536 kg
Maximum Landing Weight 10,000 lb 4,536 kg
Basic Weight 5,890 lb 2,671 kg
Total Internal Usable Fuel 1,200 lb 544 kg
Total Usable Fuel w/2 External Tanks 2,054 lb 932 kg
Total Maximum Usable Fuel w/4 Tanks 2,908 lb 1,319 kg
Total Hardpoints 7 7
NATO Standard Weapons Stations 6 6
Overall Length
Usable Weapons Stations when EO/IR installed 6 6 33 ft 4 in (10.16 m)
# of MIL–STD–1760 Compatible Stations 4 4

AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE
Wing Loading (lb / ft²) Empty 33.0 lb / ft² 33.0 lb / ft²
Wing Loading (lb / ft²) MGTOW 56.0 lb / ft² 56.0 lb / ft²
Power Loading (lb / ft²) Empty 3.7 lb / shp 3.7 lb / shp
Power Loading (lb / ft²) MGTOW 6.3 lb / shp 6.3 lb / shp
Basic Limits .67 Mach 316 KIAS
Basic Limits w/EO/IR Sensor .67 Mach 316 KIAS
Basic Limits w/Weapons .67 Mach 316 KIAS
Max Load 4,110 lb 1,864 kg
Max Landing Load 4,110 lb 1,864 kg
Max G w/EO/IR Sensor 6 6
Max Ferry Range
1,563 nm 2,895 km
(with four external fuel tanks and MX-15di)
Max Ferry Range Overall Height
1,725 nm 3195 km
(with four external fuel tanks) 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m)

AVIONICS CAPABILITIES
GPS Navigation Yes Yes
Flight Management System Yes Yes
Precision GPS Approach (WAAS LPV) Yes Yes
Digital Terrain Elevation Data Yes Yes

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