Training aircraft facts for kids

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RAF BAE Systems Hawk T2 Lofting-1
The BAE Systems Hawkis the main jet training aircraft of the Royal Air Force.

A training aircraft, sometimes called a trainer, is an aircraft used to train future pilots and crews of aircraft.

Types of aircraft
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Images for kids

  • Slingsby.firefly.t67m.fairford2006.arp

    Slingsby T-67 Firefly of the UK Defence Elementary Flying Training School, used for training army and navy pilots

  • SF-260 cockpit

    Cockpit of the Aermacchi SF.260. Student pilot or PIC in the right-hand seat, where all primary flight instrument are.

  • IJTJM

    HAL HJT-36 jet trainer that is set to replace the HAL Kiran aircraft of the Indian Air Force, together with the HAL Tejas.

  • 3Xtrim3X55TrainerC-IFUF04

    Polish 3Xtrim 3X55 Trener ultralight trainer

  • Fouga magister

    Fouga Magister jet trainer of the Belgian Air Force. The Magister first flew in 1952 with deliveries beginning in 1956

  • Pampa II 3-4ths view from front

    An FMA IA 63 Pampa advanced trainer of the Argentine Air Force

  • Yakovlev Yak-130

    A Yakovlev Yak-130 two-seat military trainer aircraft of the Russian Air Force

  • TA-4F Skyhawk from H&MS-32 at MCAS Cherry Point on 1 December 1978

    A US Marine Corps TA-4F, a two-seat combat capable training version of the normally single seat A-4 Skyhawk.

  • T 44 4LR

    US Navy T-44A Pegasus trainer, used to train pilots of multi-engined aircraft

  • PC-7 Viper

    Austrian PC-7 in COIN configuration

  • Pilatus pc-21 hb-hzc lands arp

    The demonstrator for the Swiss designed and manufactured Pilatus PC-21 trainer lands at RIAT 2008, England.


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