Fleetwings PQ-12

The Fleetwings PQ-12  was a 1940s American manned aerial-target designed and built by Fleetwings for the United States Army Air Corps.

The PQ-12 was a single-engined monoplane with a 225 hp Lycoming O-435 piston engine. It had a fixed nose-wheel landing gear, twin vertical tails and an open-cockpit was provided for manned flight. Instead of the optional pilot a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb could be carried in the cockpit. The original prototype was cancelled but a modified variant was built followed by eight test aircraft, although an order for 40 production aircraft was placed it was subsequently cancelled.

Variants

 * XPQ-12
 * Prototype, not built.


 * XPQ-12A
 * Modified prototype, one-built.


 * YPQ-12A
 * Test and evaluation aircraft, eight-built.


 * PQ-12A
 * Production variant, 40 ordered but none were built.