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Originally Posted by Roger
Especially interesting is that during the Vietnam War, if you were a corporate owner of a Skymaster your aircraft was confiscated by the US Govt, and converted into an O2 for military use.
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Thats not true. The O-2B was converted from commercial off the shelf 337B's, but there were enough in the dealer network, that the Government bought what was available through that avenue.
There are too many structural differences between the O-2A, and the commercial version, that it would be cheaper to build an O-2, than convert a "B" to an O-2. The fuselage is structurally different, the wings are structurally different, and the tail is structurally different too.