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Fuji T-7

🇯🇵 Japan ·first flew 2002· primary/basic trainer

🛩️ light / GA turboprop ✓ still flying

what is it?

The Fuji T-7 (previously T-3 Kai) is a Japanese primary trainer aircraft built by Fuji Heavy Industries for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. A development of Fuji's earlier T-3 trainer, it is a single-engined monoplane powered by a turboprop engine.

How to recognise it: 1 turboprop · 10 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 298 km/hcruise speed
  • size 1,585 kgmax take-off weight
  • built 49made in total

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 24 years ago, in 2002.
  • Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

turboprop: A jet-style turbine turning a propeller: efficient on short hops.

spec sheet

first flight
2002-07-09
introduced
2003
status
still flying
number built
49
role
primary/basic trainer
origin
🇯🇵 Japan
makers
Subaru Corporation
engines
1× Rolls-Royce 250-B17F
crew
2
length
8.6 m
wingspan
10 m
height
3 m
max take-off weight
1,585 kg
top speed
—
cruise speed
298 km/h
range
—

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

Sources: Wikidata Q1143268, Wikipedia: Fuji T-7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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