Market Overview: Trainer/Light Attack Aircraft

Briefing Series: World Military & Civil Aircraft Briefing
Issue Date: December 2022

This overview covers four aspects of the Trainer/Light Attack market. Please note that it does not cover supersonic planes, except for some words about their impact on training and the market in our first section. More information about the KAI/Lockheed Martin A/T-50 can be found in our Fighter/Attack Aircraft overview, and in the A/T-50 report. This first section of our Trainer overview looks at the market as a whole, with a discussion of trends and dynamics. The second section concerns prop trainers. Then, we cover jet trainers. Finally, we discuss requirements for trainer aircraft, in the US and the rest of the world. This is followed by our usual quantitative forecast tables.