Rockwell Ranger 2000

The Rockwell Ranger 2000 was a two-seat jet trainer that Rockwell International proposed for the United States Joint Primary Aircraft Training System, with help from the German firm Rhein-Flugzeugbau. It was a single-engine, low-wing monoplane with tandem seating, retractable tricycle landing gear and a rear fuselage Pratt and Whitney Canada JT15D-5C turbofan fed by intakes above the wing roots, and its design drew on the RFB Fantrainer. The prototypes were built in Germany, the first flying on 15 January 1993 at Manching. The second prototype was lost in an accident that July, and the type lost the competition to a variant of the Pilatus PC-9, later the T-6 Texan II. One survivor is displayed at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.