TAI Hürkuş

The TAI Hürkuş is a tandem two-seat, low-wing, single-engine turboprop aircraft produced by Turkish Aerospace Industries as a trainer and ground attack aircraft for the Turkish Armed Forces. It is named after Vecihi Hürkuş, a pilot of the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence and the first Turkish aeroplane manufacturer. The development agreement was signed in March 2006, the aircraft was rolled out on 27 June 2012 and first flew on 29 August 2013, and in 2016 the Hürkuş-A trainer received an EASA CS-23 validation type certificate and a Turkish civil aircraft type certificate. Variants include the Hürkuş-B with integrated avionics, the armed Hürkuş-C and the lighter Hürkuş-2. The specification lists one Pratt and Whitney Canada PT6A-68T turboprop of 1,200 kilowatts.