Mikoyan MiG-AT

The MiG-AT is a Russian advanced trainer and light attack aircraft that was meant to replace the Aero L-29 and L-39 in the Russian Air Force. Designed by the Mikoyan design bureau and built by the Moscow Aircraft Production Association, it made its official first flight on 21 March 1996 with Roman Taskayev at the controls, accompanied by a MiG-29UB and an L-39 as chase planes. It was the first joint aircraft programme between Russia and France and the first military collaboration between Russia and the West to reach first flight, and it is powered by two Snecma-Turbomeca Larzac 04R20 turbofans. It lost to the Yakovlev Yak-130 in 2002 and found no export buyers.