CASA C-102

The CASA C-102 was a Spanish military trainer aircraft that was designed in the late 1970s but never built. The project began in 1977 when the Spanish Air Force asked CASA for a trainer. CASA answered with a conventional all-metal monoplane with a T-tail, a fixed tricycle undercarriage and side-by-side seating for the pilot and the instructor. When the Air Force opened a formal tender a year later for its Future Selective Light Aircraft, CASA offered a refined version called the C-102S, and it also sketched a four-seat utility variant, the C-102SE. Interest then faded and no order was placed, so the design stayed on paper. The Air Force did not fill the trainer role with a modern type until about a decade later.