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Fuji T 5

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Top speed
  
357 km/h

Length
  
8.4 m

Manufacturer
  
Fuji Heavy Industries

Wingspan
  
10 m

Introduced
  
1988

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The Fuji T-5 or KM-2Kai is a Japanese turboprop-driven primary trainer aircraft, which is a development of the earlier Fuji KM-2. The student and the instructor sit side-by-side.

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Design and development

The Fuji T-5 was developed by Fuji Heavy Industries as a replacement for the piston-engined Fuji KM-2 (itself a development of the Beechcraft T-34 Mentor) as a primary trainer for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Fuji refitted a KM-2 with an Allison Model 250 turboprop engine in place of the original Lycoming piston engine, the resulting KM-2D first flying on 28 June 1984 and being certified on 14 February 1985. The KM-2Kai is a further development of the KM-2D, with a modernised cockpit with side-by-side seating and a sliding canopy replacing the original KM-2's car type side doors (which were retained by the KM-2D).

The T-5 is an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by an Allison 250-B17D turboprop with a three-bladed constant speed propeller. It has a retractable tricycle landing gear with the main gear retracting inwards and nose gear rearwards. The T-5 has an enclosed cabin with a sliding canopy and two side-by-side seats, and dual controls, in the aerobatic version and four seats in pairs in the utility version.

Operational history

The KM-2Kai was ordered by the JMSDF as the T-5 in March 1987, with deliveries of the KM2-Kai to the Japanese Self Defence Forces beginning in 1988, with a total of 40 being built. The T-5 serves with the 201 Air Training Squadron at Ozuki Air Field. The original KM-2 is no longer in service.

Operators

 Japan
  • Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

    • Specifications (T-5)

    Data from Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide

    General characteristics

  • Crew: 2: student, instructor
  • Length: 8.4 m (27ft8in)
  • Wingspan: 10 m (32ft11in)
  • Height: 2.9 m (9ft8in)
  • Wing area: 16.5 m2 (178 ft2)
  • Airfoil: NACA 23016.5/23012 (root/tip)
  • Empty weight: 1,082 kg (2,385 lb)
  • Max. takeoff weight: 1,805 kg (3,979 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Allison Model 250-B17D turboprop, 261 kW (350 hp)

    • Performance

  • Never exceed speed: 413 km/h (223 knots, 256 mph)
  • Maximum speed: 357 km/h (193 knots, 222 mph) at 2,440 m (8,000 ft)
  • Cruise speed: 287 km/h (155 knots, 178 km/h)
  • Stall speed: 104 km/h (56 knots, 65 mph) (flaps down)
  • Range: 945 km (510 nm, 587 mi)
  • Service ceiling: 7,620 m (25,000 ft)
  • Rate of climb: 8.6 m/s (1,700 ft/min)

    • Armament

  • None fitted as standard

    • References

    Fuji T-5 Wikipedia
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