McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk

The McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk is a highly modified version of the British Aerospace Hawk trainer, built by McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing, with British Aerospace, now BAE Systems, as the carrier-capable jet trainer of the United States Navy. It originated in the mid-1970s search for a single replacement for the T-2 Buckeye and TA-4 Skyhawk trainers, and the Anglo-American team won the VTX-TS competition against rival bids that included the Alpha Jet. The original T-45A, operational in 1991, had an analog cockpit, while the T-45C of December 1997 introduced a glass cockpit. Production ended in November 2009 with the 221st aircraft.