T.28 Trojan

The T-28 was a successful trainer used by the U.S. Air Force and Navy from the 1950s through the 1970s, being finally retired from the American services only in the 1980s.  First flown September 24, 1949, it was built in numbers of 1,948 aircraft.
A “Trojan” is someone from the ancient civilization of Troy, a city-state in what is now Turkey that flourished in various incarnations from 3000 BC to 0 BC and has become renowned in legend for its prowess in warfare.
Although it did not have much of a payload, the performance of the T-28 made it useful as a ground-attack and counter-insurgency aircraft.  In this capacity it was used mainly by the South Vietnamese Air Force and also by France, which developed a counter-insurgency version of the T-28 called the Fennec (a fennec is a small fox found in the north African desert) for use in policing its colonial possessions.  About 25 other countries used T-28s in numbers ranging from a handful to a hundred or two.  The last was retired by the Phillippines in 1994.