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PAC development engineer, John Hansen, working on the Allison 250 installation on the CT-4C. (Peter Clark)
Turbine Airtrainer Continues Flight Testing
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Turbine Airtrainer Continues Flight Test Program
New Zealand’s Pacific Aerospace Corporation’s CT-4C is about as far removed from the original Victa Airtourer of the fifties as a Skymaster is from Concorde.
The origins of the CT-4 Airtrainer light primary trainer can of course be traced to a design by Australia’s Henry Millicer. This won the 1952 design competition sponsored by England’s prestigious Royal Aero Club and was subsequently built by Victa in Australia as a civil light touring and training aircraft. Unfortunately Victa eventually had to withdraw from production after completing 170 examples for reasons that were no fault of the aircraft. *
In 1967, New Zealand’s Aero Engine Services Ltd, which later amalgamated with Airparts of Hamilton to become New Zealand Aerospace Industries, bought the rights to this four seat development known as the CT-2 Aircruiser and decided to convert the design to a military training aircraft.
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