Carenado’s next airplane is a T-34

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The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor is the next aircraft that Carenado is producing for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The aircraft has been shown, mostly in screenshots, via updates from the developer’s Facebook page over the last few weeks.

Mentor

Carenado is typically light on details during the run-up to an aircraft release and the trademark avoiding Tango34B is similar to the rest. The aircraft appears to have the same kind of high quality visuals, variety of liveries and both MSFS 2020 and 2024 support as they have with prior projects.

The developer has indicated that the aircraft will release first for 2024 and then will follow up with a 2020 release. Again, this following a typical pattern established with other aircraft releases.

The Beechcraft T-34 Mentor began to replace the T-6 Texan at some training bases in the US during the early 1950s and there it stayed until the beginning of the 1960s in USAF service and lasted longer into the 1970s with the US Navy. Aircraft have also found life in civil service and with aerobatic teams on occasion. It could be quite the fun addition to MSFS hangars.

More to come!

8 responses to “Carenado’s next airplane is a T-34”

  1. Stewmanji Avatar
    Stewmanji

    As someone who learned to fly in this aircraft back at NAS Corpus Christi, I am ridiculously excited about this piece of news.

    The T-34C wasn’t anything amazing but she was a bit of a hot rod in her old ways.

    Looking forward to getting her airborne again. Thanks for the news, as always, and happy new years to you Shamrock!

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      Happy new year! I absolutely love when flight sims let people reconnect with real world experiences.

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  2. Urgent Siesta Avatar
    Urgent Siesta

    I don’t often buy Carenados (usually too many irritating glitches), but for this bird, I’ll make an exception!

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  3. Xavier Avatar
    Xavier

    The support from Carenado is disappointing. On Monday, March 2, 2026, I bought the plane from the MSFS 2020 market. I have found 4 problems. The first is that JoinFS does not detect this plane even when forcing it to scan official/onestore. The second problem is that I cannot find any manual for the plane made by Carenado. The third is that the QNH value expressed in the altimeter does not correspond to what the simulator has and the fourth does not show the pilot in the back. Of the first three, I have opened support tickets and days have passed without any response. I really like this plane but I am very disappointed waiting for Carenado to attend to the tickets.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      Sounds like you’re having a lot of problems with this one. You’re right, they haven’t released a manual and it does seem like they haven’t released manuals for a bunch of recent releases. Hopefully it still comes one day.

      I did go looking to see if anyone else reported the altimeter issue. Nobody seems to have noticed that one.

      As for JoinFS, I have no familiarity with that product but I would assume their software needs to have a listing of aircraft modules to connect correctly. That may be on that software rather than MSFS or Carenado to solve I would think. I could be wrong!

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      1. Xavier Avatar
        Xavier

        Thanks for your answer, in the case of JoinFS with the latest version it works sometimes especially if there are only two aircraft, if there are 3 some of them show incorrectly, the most curious thing is that when it shows it properly if you go to the JoinFS menu view>aircraft the Mentor T-34B does not appear, it assigns another model to it despite showing the mentor some times.

        In any case, what I find difficult to understand is that they sell planes that do not come with a manual or support, in my opinion this is unacceptable.

        I would like to take this opportunity to comment that the fuel pump doesn’t seem to have any real effect on the plane and that the Carb Heat isn’t even simulated, which adds a little more disappointment to a plane that could be great.

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      2. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
        ShamrockOneFive

        Ahh yeah Carenado aircraft are typically not simulated at that level. They have upped their game recently but even so they aren’t doing things like carb heat and the fuel pump is often an afterthought.

        I think for the level of simulation you’re after, products from A2A Simulations or Black Square are probably going to be more in your wheelhouse. See my Black Square Dukes review as an example: https://stormbirds.blog/2026/01/02/an-incredible-experience-black-square-duke-review/

        Both of those tend to come with significant documentation as well as the deeper system simulation that you may find valuable. Pricier than Carenado products but obviously that extra cost goes into the deeper offering. Something to consider!

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  4. Xavier Avatar
    Xavier

    Hello again, I know A2A and Black Square their planes are the best and I really didn’t expect this level in the Mentor T34B from Carenado, but I did expect the level of realism of their planes to have increased.

    I usually fly the Focke Wulf 190 A-8 from Flyingiron with some friends and when we saw this military trainer we thought it could be a good option as an alternative plane to learn to fly more and better. Obviously the FW190 is much more difficult to fly but we are excited to fly this legendary plane too.

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