Fuji T-5

{{Short description|Japanese military trainer aircraft}} {{Infobox aircraft |name = T-5 |image = File:T-5 Ozuki (22103680772).jpg |caption = |type = Basic trainer |manufacturer = Fuji Heavy Industries |designer = |first_flight = 28 June 1984 |introduction = 1988 |retired = |produced = |number_built = |status = |unit cost = |primary_user = Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |more_users = |developed_from = Fuji KM-2 |variants = }}

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 <ref name="Janes88-89">{{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}}</ref> and being certified on 14 February 1985.<ref name="Janes88-89"/><ref name="Military aircraft">{{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}}</ref> 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 <ref name="Military aircraft"/> (which were retained by the KM-2D<ref name="Janes88-89"/>).

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,<ref name="Military aircraft"/> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> The original KM-2 is no longer in service.

==Operators== ;{{JPN}} * Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

==Specifications (T-5)==

{{Aircraft specs |ref=Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide <ref>{{cite book|title=Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide|last=Rendall|first=David|pages=[https://archive.org/details/janesaircraftrec0000rend/page/505 505]|year=1995|isbn=0-00-4709802|publisher=HarperCollinsPublishers|location=Glasgow, UK|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/janesaircraftrec0000rend/page/505}}</ref> |prime units?=met  |crew=2 |length m=8.4 |length note= |span m=10 |span note= |height m=2.9 |height note= |wing area sqm=16.5 |wing area note= |aspect ratio= |airfoil='''root:''' NACA 23016.5; '''tip:''' NACA 23012<ref name="Selig">{{cite web |last1=Lednicer |first1=David |title=The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage |url=https://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads/aircraft.html |website=m-selig.ae.illinois.edu |access-date=16 April 2019}}</ref> |empty weight kg=1082 |empty weight note= |gross weight kg= |gross weight note= |max takeoff weight kg=1805 |max takeoff weight note= |fuel capacity= |more general=  |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Allison Model 250-B17D |eng1 type=turboprop |eng1 kw=261 |eng1 note=

|prop blade number=3 |prop name=constant-speed propeller |prop dia m= |prop dia note=  |max speed kmh=357 |max speed note=at {{cvt|2440|m|0}} |max speed mach= |cruise speed kmh=287 |cruise speed note= |stall speed kmh=104 |stall speed note=<ref name = "brasseys">{{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 }}</ref> |never exceed speed kmh=413 |never exceed speed note= |minimum control speed kmh= |minimum control speed note= |range km=945 |range note= |combat range km= |combat range note= |ferry range km= |ferry range note= |endurance= |ceiling m=7620 |ceiling note= |g limits= |roll rate= |climb rate ms=8.6 |climb rate note= |time to altitude= |wing loading kg/m2= |wing loading note= |disk loading kg/m2= |disk loading note= |fuel consumption kg/km= |power/mass= |thrust/weight= |more performance= |avionics= }}

==See also== {{Portal|Japan|Aviation}} {{aircontent  |related= *Beech T-34 *Fuji KM-2 *Fuji T-3 *Fuji T-7 |similar aircraft= |sequence= |lists= |see also= }}

==References== {{commons category|Fuji T-5}} {{Reflist}}

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