SIAI-Marchetti S.211 (later Aermacchi S-211) and Aermacchi M-345
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:24 pmThis is a nice aircraft made by IndiaFoxtEcho Visual Simulations...
Oh, no these are in reality two aircraft in one package. You have the S. 211 made for the JPATS announcement (Joint Primary Aircraft Training System) for USAF and US Navy in 1988, made by Siai Marchetti, later Aermacchi in Partnership with Grumman. But the winner was another competitor, the Beech-Pilatus PC-9 Mk 2, which won the competition; produced as the T-6 Texan II...
In the end, around 60 are build. Biggest customer was Singapur with 32, which are used by the Airforce of Singapur for basic training in a base in Australia. 1995 these aircraft are no longer used and replaced. Some of them are now in private hands in Australia.
And you have the new variant MB-345, with a new glascockpit and HUD from 2005. A Prototyp. Nobody has buyed it.
Both are basic trainer for Jet-Novices, an aircraft like the Aero L-29 (not L-39) basic trainer from the former Warsaw Pact. It has not much to do with the new Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master/Yakovlev Yak-130 wich have the same genes. These are advanced led in trainers for combat, to reduce the flying hours with the real combat aircraft and give the fighter pilots the chance to fly a sophisticated aircraft with around 80 % of the possibilities of aircraft like the Eurofighters in Italy or the Sukhoi Su 27 to -57 in the Russian Federation.
You can find it at Simmarket and other stores.
Oh, no these are in reality two aircraft in one package. You have the S. 211 made for the JPATS announcement (Joint Primary Aircraft Training System) for USAF and US Navy in 1988, made by Siai Marchetti, later Aermacchi in Partnership with Grumman. But the winner was another competitor, the Beech-Pilatus PC-9 Mk 2, which won the competition; produced as the T-6 Texan II...
In the end, around 60 are build. Biggest customer was Singapur with 32, which are used by the Airforce of Singapur for basic training in a base in Australia. 1995 these aircraft are no longer used and replaced. Some of them are now in private hands in Australia.
And you have the new variant MB-345, with a new glascockpit and HUD from 2005. A Prototyp. Nobody has buyed it.
Both are basic trainer for Jet-Novices, an aircraft like the Aero L-29 (not L-39) basic trainer from the former Warsaw Pact. It has not much to do with the new Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master/Yakovlev Yak-130 wich have the same genes. These are advanced led in trainers for combat, to reduce the flying hours with the real combat aircraft and give the fighter pilots the chance to fly a sophisticated aircraft with around 80 % of the possibilities of aircraft like the Eurofighters in Italy or the Sukhoi Su 27 to -57 in the Russian Federation.
You can find it at Simmarket and other stores.