British Aerospace Hawk 200

The British Aerospace Hawk 200 is a British single-seat, single-engine, subsonic light multirole fighter, developed as a dedicated combat variant of the Hawk advanced trainer for the export market. Its wider, pointed nose holds a Northrop Grumman radar and its shorter canopy makes it the only true single-seat Hawk, because the forward cockpit is replaced by an electronics bay for avionics, a fire control computer, a laser rangefinder and forward-looking infrared. British Aerospace began the work in 1984, and the single demonstrator first flew on 19 May 1986 and was lost in a fatal accident at Dunsfold less than two months later. The programme went on regardless, and the first order came in 1990 when Oman bought twelve Hawk 203 aircraft, all delivered by 1993.