These walk-around photos were taken at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California in 2017, where the aircraft is displayed wearing its distinctive red, yellow and polished metal colour scheme and nose art "Boll Weevil." They show a North American SNJ-4 Texan, civil registration N75964, c/n 88-9830 — the US Navy's designation for the ubiquitous T-6 Texan advanced trainer, one of the most important training aircraft in aviation history.
The T-6 Texan family, known in Navy service as the SNJ, was the standard advanced trainer for Allied pilots throughout the Second World War and beyond. Virtually every American military pilot of the war era flew one before moving on to operational types, and the same was true for pilots of the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and numerous other nations, where it was known as the Harvard. Nearly 16,000 were built in total, evolving from the BC-1 basic combat trainer of 1937. The SNJ-4 was a Navy-specific variant powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engine, featuring a revised cockpit and equipment suited to naval aviation training.
This particular aircraft, c/n 88-9830, was manufactured in 1943 and served with the US Navy. It is currently operated by the Commemorative Air Force SoCal Wing and is displayed at Chino in its eye-catching wartime trainer colour scheme with the period-appropriate nose art and pilot names on the forward fuselage.