Taiwan’s AIDC Completes Initial Design Of New Basic Trainer

AIDC trainer concept

The AIDC aims for Taiwanese companies to supply 75% of the components for its next basic trainer.

Credit: AIDC
In 1980, the Taiwanese Aerospace Industrial Development Corp.’s AT-3 jet trainer took to the skies. Named the Tzu Chung (“self-reliance”), it was the first domestically designed and manufactured aircraft for the self-governed island. Taiwan has steadily increased the amount of indigenous work on...

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