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Stinson AT-19 – The Reliant goes to war

Tom Bullion flies over the Memphis, Tennessee landscape in his beautifully restored, military-variant Stinson AT-19. After serving in India with the RAF during WW II, this aircraft was later shipped back to the U.S. in a big crate.

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For every WW II, gun-toting combat bird, be it fighter or bomber, there were dozens of trainers, liaison grasshoppers, transports, and utility craft that history has largely forgotten. One of those is the Stinson Reliant that, when dressed in camo and wearing roundels or stars, labored in the background performing mundane squadron hack duties or, more importantly, providing training for fledgling navigators, photographers, etc. as the UC-81/AT-19. The Reliant was a child of the 1930s,...

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