These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a North American Harvard Mk.IIB, serial FE905 — one of the most important training aircraft of the Second World War. The Harvard, known in the United States as the T-6 Texan, was the standard advanced trainer of the Allied air forces and formed the final stepping stone before pilots progressed to frontline fighters and bombers. Its powerful Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine and demanding handling made it an effective preparation for high-performance combat aircraft, and its characteristic rasping engine note became a familiar sound over training airfields from Canada to Rhodesia. Over 17,000 were built in total, the majority in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. FE905 was built by Noorduyn Aviation in Montreal in 1943 and served with the RCAF at No. 37 and No. 8 Service Flying Training Schools in Alberta and Saskatchewan, accumulating just 74 flying hours before being struck off charge in 1946. It subsequently served with the Royal Danish Air Force and later a Norwegian civil operator before being purchased for the RAF Museum in 1985. After restoration at RAF Cardington and a period on loan at the Newark Air Museum alongside the Oxford MP425, it arrived at Hendon in October 1994 where it has been on display ever since.