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unusual facts about PAC CT/4



PAC CT/4 Airtrainer

PAC's predecessor, AESL, derived the CT/4 from the earlier 4 seat prototype Victa Aircruiser, itself a development of the original Victa Airtourer two seat light tourer, 172 of which had been built in Australia from 1961 to 1966 before the rights to the Airtourer and Aircruiser were sold to the New Zealand company AESL, who built a total of 80 Airtourers at their factory at Hamilton in the 1970s.


This is also used by the RAAF, through the BAe College in Tamworth, as a basic trainer and for the Pilot Selection process

The Pacific Aerospace Corporation CT/4 Airtrainer series are all-metal construction, single-engine, two place side-by-side seating, fully aerobatic, piston engined, basic training aircraft manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Pilot Training School

The squadron received a small number of AESL Airtourer in 1970 and re-equipped with Pacific Aerospace CT-4B Airtrainers in 1976, these subsequently being replaced by more powerful CT-4Es.


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