Introduction
History
The CM.170 Magister is a French two-seat jet trainer aircraft build by Fouga. Its first flight was on 23rd of July, 1952, and service in French Air Force began in 1956. In total, 929 models were built for a dozen different armies, including France, Ireland and Belgium. Even though main use of the aircraft was pilot training, some have been used for close air support, during Six-Day war for instance.
It has two tandem seats, a distinctive butterfly tail configuration and wing tip tanks. Fouga was firstly powered by two Turbomeca Marboré II engines, each delivering 880 lbf of thrust. The Marboré IV was introduced later, with more power.
Athletic and playful, it is a reactive and polyvalent machine, which is capable of performing various types of operation, from sightseeing flights to committed aerobatics, activities for which it is mainly use nowadays by private pilots.
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