Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) Hürkuş is a tandem two-seat, low-wing, single-engine, turboprop basic trainer and ground attack aircraft made and developed in Turkey.
Developing nation: Turkey
Manufacturer/designer: Turkish Aerospace Industries
Type aircraft: basic trainer and ground attack aircraft
First flight: 29 August 2013
Produced: 2016 –
Built: 4 prototypes
Primary user: Turkish Armed Forces (15 ordered, 50 options)
Basic version which has been certified with EASA according to CS-23 requirements. It is intended for the civilian market.
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Capacity: one passenger
- Length: 11.17 m (36 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 9.96 m (32 ft 8 in)
- Height: 3.70 m (12 ft 2 in)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68T turboprop aircraft engine, 1,200 kW (1,600 shp)
- Propellers: 5-bladed Hartzell Propeller HC-B5MA-3
Performance
- Maximum speed: 574 km/h (357 mph; 310 kn)
- Cruise speed: 463 km/h (288 mph; 250 kn)
- Stall speed: 143 km/h (89 mph; 77 kn)
- Range: 1,478 km (918 mi; 798 nmi) at 15000 ft (4572 m)
- Endurance: 4.25 hours at 15000 ft (4572 m)
- Service ceiling: 10,577 m (34,701 ft)
- g limits: +7/-3.5
- Rate of climb: 22 m/s (4,300 ft/min)
Armament
- Guns: 12.7mm and 20mm pods
- Rockets: Roketsan Cirit, 2.75-inch rockets
- Missiles: Roketsan UMTAS
- Bombs: Mk-81, Mk-82, Tübitak SAGE HGK-3 (82), Tübitak SAGE KGK-82, BDU33 and MK106 training ordnance
Avionics
- Air data computer
- Attitude and heading reference system
- Emergency locator transmitter
- GPS
- Mode S transponder
- Radar altimeter
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