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PAC CT/4 Airtrainer
🇳🇿 New Zealand ·first flew 1972· fixed-wing primary trainer
_landing_during_the_Warbirds_Downunder_2013_(cropped).jpg)
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. New Zealand CT-4A Airtrainer inflight Vabre: Phil Vabre· GFDL
- 2. CT-4A Airtrainer A19-040 (VH-CTK) landing during the Warbirds Downunder 2013 (cropped): Bidgee· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. CT4B Airtrainer RNZAF at Whenuapai: Winstonwolfe at English Wikipedia· Public domain
what is it?
The Pacific Aerospace Corporation CT/4 Airtrainer series is an all-metal-construction, single-engine, two-place with side-by-side seating, fully aerobatic, piston-engined, basic training aircraft manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.9 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 54 years ago, in 1972.
- Top speed is 3.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1972
- retired
- 2014
- status
- retired
- number built
- 154
- role
- fixed-wing primary trainer
- origin
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- makers
- Pacific Aerospace
- engines
- 1× Lycoming AEIO-540-L1B5 / IO-360-D
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 7.9 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,180 kg
- top speed
- 387 km/h
- cruise speed
- 282 km/h
- range
- 963 km
- ceiling
- 5,550 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1359408, Wikipedia: PAC CT/4 Airtrainer (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.