Trainer Aircraft of Pakistan Air Force

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1947 - 1961

 

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The Hawker Fury FB 60 was the PAF's mainstay fighter during the first half of the 1950s. Ninety-two Furies were inducted during the early 1950s. To convert new pilots onto the new fighter, the PAF also acquired five two-seat trainer versions of the Fury, called the Fury T-61.

 

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T-33

 

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Lockheed T-33.

 

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PAF Cessana T-37 Tweety Bird, Risalpur, 1981 (c).

 

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Pakistan Air Force used 63 T-37, Including 24 T-37Bs and 39 T-37Cs. In 2008 20 T-37s were delivered from the U.S. On 28 October 2015, the Turkish Air Force gave the Pakistan Air Force 34 T-37Cs, including spares in an agreement between Turkey and Pakistan.

 

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T-37 "Braveheart #01 - Boss".
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PAF Shenyang FT-5 / JJ-5

The MiG-17 was license-built in both China and Poland. In the early 1950s, the PLAAF obtained a number of Soviet-built MiG-17 Fresco-A day fighters, designated "J-4" or, when passed on to other countries, "F-4". The Chinese obtained plans for the MiG-17F Fresco-C day fighter in 1955, along with two completed pattern aircraft, 15 knockdown kits, and parts for ten aircraft.

The first Chinese-built MiG-17F, produced by the Shenyang factory, performed its initial flight on 19 July 1956 with test pilot Wu Keming at the controls. The MiG-17F was known as the "J-5" in Chinese service, or "F-5" when it was exported. One was actually trialed as a torpedo bomber, but not surprisingly the concept never made it into formal service.

The Chinese then went on to produce the MiG-17PF interceptor as the "J-5A (F-5A)". Plans were obtained in 1961, but the country was in turmoil in the early 1960s and the first Chinese-built MiG-17PF, produced at the Chengdu factory, didn't fly until 1964, when the type was basically obsolete. It was given the designation of "J-5A (F-5A)". A total of 767 J-5s and J-5As were built to end of production in 1969.

Somewhat more practically, the Chinese built a two-seat trainer version of the MiG-17, designated the "JJ-5 (FT-5)". It was something of a hybrid, featuring the cockpit system of the MiG-15UTI / JJ-2, the non-afterburning VK-1A engine of the MiG-17 Fresco-A, and the larger airbrakes of the MiG-17F. It also had a protruding upper intake lip resembling that of the MiG-17PF, but the JJ-5 wasn't fitted with radar. All the nose armament was deleted, with the aircraft carrying a single NR-23 cannon in a belly pack. First flight was in 1968, with the type built at the Chengdu factory.

About 1,061 JJ-5s were built to end of production in 1986, with the type exported to a number of countries. Some sources have referred to it as a "MiG-17UTI", but formally speaking there never was an aircraft with that designation.

Users - Albania, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, North Korea, China.

 

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T-37 "Braveheart #01 - Boss".
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The right seat is being occupied by the smoke tank.

 

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