North American A-27

A-27
	Two A-27s of the 17th Pursuit Squadron at Nichols Field, Philippines, in 1941.
Role	Ground attack
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	North American Aviation
Primary user	United States Army Air Corps
Number built	10
Developed from	North American BC-1

The North American Aviation A-27 is an attack version of the North American BC-1. Ten aircraft were ordered by Thailand as NA-69 light attack aircraft.^[1]

Instead of being delivered to Thailand, the aircraft were taken over on October 1940 by the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to keep them out of Japanese hands and redesignated A-27 under the USAAC aircraft designation system. Assigned to Nichols Field in the Philippines and used as a trainer, all A-27s were destroyed within a month during the Japanese invasion of that country during World War II.

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General characteristics

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Armament

Guns:
- 2 x nose-mounted 30 Cal. Browning machine guns
- 1 x rear-mounted 30 Cal. machine gun
Bombs: 4 x 100 lb bombs on underwing racks

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