TAI Hürkuş

what is it?

The TAI Hürkuş (Turkish for "Free Bird") is a tandem two-seat, low-wing, single-engine, turboprop aircraft being produced by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) as a trainer and ground attack aircraft for the Turkish Armed Forces. The aircraft is named after Vecihi Hürkuş, a World War I and Turkish Independence War veteran pilot, a Turkish aviation pioneer and the first Turkish airplane manufacturer.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 turboprop · 10 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 574 km/htop speed
• range 1,478 kmwithout refuelling

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 13 years ago, in 2013.
• 🏎️Top speed is 4.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,478 km: 8× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.2× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

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

spec sheet

first flight

2013-08-29

introduced

2016

status

still flying

number built

—

role

basic/advanced trainer aircraft, light attack aircraft

origin

🇹🇷 Turkey

makers

Turkish Aerospace Industries

engines

1× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68T

length

11.2 m

wingspan

10 m

height

3.7 m

top speed

574 km/h

cruise speed

463 km/h

range

1,478 km

ceiling

10,577 m

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