Walk Around
Scale Aircraft Modelling|May 2017

F-86A-5-NA Sabre 

Steve Muth
Walk Around

On 28th February 1946, the Army Air Force approved the swept wing XP-86 mock-up and in August basic engineering drawings were made available to the manufacturing division of North American to cut metal for the new aircraft. The Air Force was so impressed with the projected performance that a letter contract was awarded to North American on 20th December 1946 to build thirty three production P-86As. No YP-86s were built. On 1st October P-86A, the XP-86, took off for the first time. On 14th November 1947, a tracking theodelite at Muroc Dry Lake Army Base, now known as Edwards AFB, revealed the XP-86 had achieved Mach 1.02 and 1.03 on two successive dives. This information was immediately classified and would remain a secret for almost fifty years.

In March of 1948 the first production P-86A, S/N 47-605, came off the production line at Inglewood. On 20th May the first flight of the production P-86A took place. Soon thereafter the Air Force placed another order for an additional 333 P-86A-1s. The P-86A-1 was based on the third prototype XP-86 except the power plant was changed from the J-35 to the J-47 with 4850 LB of thrust.

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