Fuji T-5

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|image = File:T-5 Ozuki (22103680772).jpg

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|type = Basic trainer

|manufacturer = Fuji Heavy Industries

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|first_flight = 28 June 1984

|introduction = 1988

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|primary_user = Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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|developed_from = Fuji KM-2

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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.

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 {{cite book| editor-last = Taylor| editor-first = JWR | title = Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 1988-1989 | year = 1988| publisher = Jane's Information Group|location=Coulsden, UK| isbn =0-7106-0867-5}} and being certified on 14 February 1985.{{cite book |editor-last1= Donald|editor-first1=David |editor-last2= Lake|editor-first2=Jon |title= Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft |year= 1996 |publisher= Aerospace Publishing|location= London |isbn= 1-874023-95-6}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.scramble.nl/jp.htm |title=Scramble |access-date=2007-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403015922/http://www.scramble.nl/jp.htm |archive-date=2007-04-03 }} The original KM-2 is no longer in service.

Operators

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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Specifications (T-5)

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|stall speed kmh=104

|stall speed note={{cite book |editor-last=Taylor|editor-first=M J H | title = Brassey's World Aircraft & Systems Directory 1999/2000 Edition | year = 1999 | publisher = Brassey's |location=London| isbn = 1-85753-245-7 }}

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