Mooney TX-1

The Mooney TX-1, also designated Mooney MT-20, was a prototype military basic trainer built by the Mooney Aircraft Company of Kerrville, Texas, in the early 1980s. It was a two-seat derivative of the four-seat Mooney M20J, keeping the all-metal low-wing airframe and retractable tricycle landing gear but seating pilot and instructor side by side under a sliding canopy. A single Continental TSIO-360 turbosupercharged piston engine of 240 horsepower drove a two-blade propeller, and four underwing hardpoints let the aircraft be used for weapons training and light attack as well as basic instruction. The prototype flew in late 1982. Mooney said it needed orders for 100 aircraft to launch production, but none came, only the one aircraft was ever built, and its registration was cancelled in 1989.