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The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is a military Trainer Aircraft derived from the Beechcraft Bonanza . The signature V-tail of the Bonanza was replaced with conventional tail control surfaces. The four-passenger cabin was replaced with a two-seater tandem cockpit and bubble canopy. The T-34A and T-34B used a conventional, Piston Driven Engine while the '''T-34C Turbo Mentor''' is Turboprop -powered. The T-34C is still used as the primary training aircraft for United States Navy and Marine Corps pilots. The T-34C is currently scheduled to be replaced by the T-6 Texan II but is still the primary aircraft at NAS Corpus Christi and NAS Whiting Field. The Mentor is the aircraft used by the Lima Lima Flight Team . In 2004 , due to a series of crashes involving in-flight structural failure during simulated combat flights, the entire U.S. civilian fleet of T-34s was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration . The grounding has since been eased to a series of restrictions on permitted flight envelope. This year (2006) two T-34C Turbo Mentors crashed during training at NAS Corpus Christi. VARIANTS
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