THK-16 Mehmetçik | |
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Role | Military trainer |
National origin | Turkey |
Manufacturer | THK/ MKEK |
Status | Abandoned project |
The THK-16 Mehmetçik (Turkish: "Little Mehmet" [1]) was an aircraft designed in Turkey in the early 1950s to provide the Turkish Air Force with a domestically designed and built jet trainer. The project was cancelled without the aircraft having been built. [2] [3]
As designed, the THK-16 was to have been a conventional, mid-wing monoplane with the pilot and instructor seated in tandem under a long canopy. Power would have been provided by two small turbojets mounted in underwing nacelles, and construction was to have been metal throughout. [3] Design work was practically complete in 1952 when Türk Hava Kurumu was bought out by MKEK. Although the THK-16 was selected as one of the THK designs that MKEK felt was worth continuing with and allocated the designation MKEK-3, the Turkish Air Force purchased the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star as its jet trainer and work on the local design was abandoned. [3]
Data from Cebeci 2004
General characteristics
Performance
THK-16 Mehmetçik | |
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Role | Military trainer |
National origin | Turkey |
Manufacturer | THK/ MKEK |
Status | Abandoned project |
The THK-16 Mehmetçik (Turkish: "Little Mehmet" [1]) was an aircraft designed in Turkey in the early 1950s to provide the Turkish Air Force with a domestically designed and built jet trainer. The project was cancelled without the aircraft having been built. [2] [3]
As designed, the THK-16 was to have been a conventional, mid-wing monoplane with the pilot and instructor seated in tandem under a long canopy. Power would have been provided by two small turbojets mounted in underwing nacelles, and construction was to have been metal throughout. [3] Design work was practically complete in 1952 when Türk Hava Kurumu was bought out by MKEK. Although the THK-16 was selected as one of the THK designs that MKEK felt was worth continuing with and allocated the designation MKEK-3, the Turkish Air Force purchased the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star as its jet trainer and work on the local design was abandoned. [3]
Data from Cebeci 2004
General characteristics
Performance