The prototype TT-1 Pinto trainer first flew in 1956 and was proposed as a competitor to the Cessna T-37. Although 14 were built for the USN by Temco Aircraft, by 1960 they were retired. In 1968, American Jet Industries flew an uprated version with a more powerful engine as the T-610 Super Pinto which was to be built in the Philippines, but this failed to materialise

The Super Pinto has a General Electric CJ610 turbojet engine (2850 pounds of thrust) instead of the original Continental J69 turbojet engine (920 pounds of thrust).

Now displayed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola.