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Short Tucano TI RAFHome > MADE TO ORDER > Military Aircraft > Prop Powered Models > Short Tucano TI RAF
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Item#: FMPSBTTI MSRP Price: $299.95 Factory Direct Price: $199.95 Manufacturer: Short Brothers
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Short Tucano TI RAF
| The Short Tucano T1 (S.312) is a two seat turboprop basic trainer used by the Royal Air Force. It is a licence-built version of the Brazilian Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, and is also used by the air forces of Kenya and Kuwait.The Short Tucano was developed by the British Short Brothers company in order to meet a requirement to replace the Jet Provost as the basic trainer for the RAF, as laid down in Air Staff Target 412. It is an adaptation of the Embraer EMB-312 Tucano fitted with the more powerful 1100 shp Garrett turboprop engine in place of the EMB-312's 750 shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine, to give higher climb performance.
Since first deliveries to the RAF in 1989, the Tucano has been operated primarily from No 1 Flying Training School at RAF Linton-on-Ouse to provide basic fast-jet flying training to RAF and RN student pilots. The deployment is officially to 72 (Reserve) Squadron, 207 (Reserve) Squadron and 76 Squadron (Tucano Air Navigation Squadron). Student pilots fly around 130 hours during their training course on the Tucano before progressing to the Hawk T1 aircraft at RAF Valley. In service the Tucano has proven to be 70% cheaper to operate than its predecessor. With a greater range and endurance than the Jet Provost, it can fly two consecutive sorties before being refuelled. One of the key performance requirements was that it can climb to 15,000ft in six minutes, in comparison to the Jet Provost's 15 minutes; this gave considerably more training value for each one-hour sortie. Your model will be made exactly as shown in the photographs. If you would like to change this model in any other way, please visit the Custom Model section of our website to commission a personalized model to be built. |