Spain and Türkiye agreed on the workshare to develop the Spanish Hürjets, which can have main Spanish subsystems, forward of the signing of the contract.
A brand new settlement between TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries) and Airbus Defence and Area has now formalized the partnership between the 2 firms for the Spanish acquisition of the Hürjet jet coach. The settlement was signed final week on the IDEF (Worldwide Protection Business Honest) 2025, forward of a remaining business deal to be signed by September or October.
Beneath the settlement, the Spanish Air and Area Pressure (SASF) will purchase as much as 30 Hürjet airframes, with deliveries anticipated to start in 2028. The brand new plane will exchange the service’s fleet of 19 SF-5M Freedom Fighter jet trainers.
The newest settlement divides the workshare between TAI/TUSAS and Airbus. The latter is a consultant for the consortium of Spanish industries that may manufacture the plane’s main elements and sub-systems.
The ball was set rolling after Spain evaluated the Hürjet prototype between July and August 2024 at Torrejon Air Base, close to Madrid. This was adopted by a December 2024 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Turkey’s Presidency of Protection Industries (SSB) and the Spanish Ministry of Protection, formally choosing the Hürjet as the longer term coach.
Then, in Might 2025, TAI revealed the full-sized mannequin of the Hürjet with SASF markings for show on the Feindef 2025 exhibition in Spain.
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New settlement
In response to Every day Sabah, the “settlement clarified the roles of the 2 firms within the Hürjet mission and formalized the partnership between TAI and Airbus in Spain’s jet coach plane procurement course of.” Spanish and Turkish industries would cooperate to develop what’s being referred to as the broader Built-in Coaching System-Fight (ITS-C) that’s centered across the Hürjet, with a purpose to put together the plane for Spanish use.
AvionRevue reported earlier this yr that Airtificial, a Spanish aerospace firm primarily based in Cádiz, is already concerned within the Hurjet mission, manufacturing energetic and passive flight management arms. The corporate introduced on Apr. 3, 2024, that it signed a two-phase contract value $2.8 million to fabricate these elements for the Hurjet.
Aviation Week touched upon the finer industrial-commercial features the MoU goals to deal with, saying the settlement permits each Turkish and Spanish engineers to “decide which subsystems would go into the plane […] relying upon the price and time influence on this system.” This takes into consideration the truth that a manufacturing line in Spain is just not possible for the small variety of airframes Madrid plans to purchase.
Throughout Feindef 2025 in June, agreements with Spanish firms like Aernnova, GMV, Indra, ITP Aero, Grupo Oesía, and Sener, have been signed.
Spanish Hürjets
Aviation Week quoted TAI Basic Supervisor Mehmet Demiroğlu who stated {that a} first batch of six plane will likely be delivered in the same configuration as these meant for the Turkish Air Pressure (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri). It will permit them to start the deliveries inside the goal date set for 2028, including that that is the “quickest approach to advance their [Spanish Air Force] wants.”
The second batch can be aligned with the technical discussions between Turkish and Spanish engineers, and can include “licensed and prepared” Spanish subsystems. Finally, all the plane will likely be retrofitted with Spanish aerospace components, and Demiroğlu instructed Aviation Week that the brand new settlement makes it “95% clear who will do what,” whereas “the remaining 5% is the place the ultimate negotiations are underway, together with on certification.”
Demiroğlu predicts that the Hürjet’s improvement work ought to be full by late 2027 or early 2028. AvionRevue reported a Jun. 27, 2025 assertion by Spanish Protection Minister Margarita Robles to the Senate Protection Committee, stressing that Madrid would “co-develop” an “superior jet coach primarily based on the Turkish Hürjet via a bilateral cooperation program with Turkey.”
Robles added that the “Spanish-ization of the plane” permits the event of a Spanish model of the plane with nationwide design authority. She additional highlighted this system’s financial influence of €2.887 billion in enterprise, straight supporting 792 direct jobs, with a complete employment influence of two,614.
That is the fantastic thing about a contemporary LCA and AJT jet. Hürjet, Turkiye’s first manned supersonic fight jet, has stolen everybody’s hearts with its aerodynamic aesthetics in its 2nd prototype. The brand new camouflage paint displays the true identification of this plane pic.twitter.com/2D0ado8bLt
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The SASF’s Hürjets can be assigned to the Ala 23 (twenty third Wing) at Talavera La Actual Air Base, which presently operates the 19 F-5Ms. The F-5Ms are used to coach pilots as a part of the Fighter and Assault Section to fly the Eurofighter Typhoons and F-18 (Spain doesn’t use the F/A-18 Designation for its Hornets).
Hürjet superior jet coach
The Hürjet has to date accomplished 210 check flights and achieved a most velocity of Mach 1.4. The supersonic superior jet coach is centered round a holistic Hürjet Coaching 360 System, full with an Embedded Coaching System, Floor-Primarily based Coaching System and Stay-Digital Constructive Coaching, extra fitted to the coaching of pilots that may fly on fifth era plane.
Its trendy interface reduces the transition time to fifth era plane, whereas the “good single-engine configuration permits decrease gas consumption, simpler and quicker upkeep, and decreased use of spare components,” Every day Sabah stated. The plane can contact a most altitude of 45,000 ft, with a payload of 6,000 lb and a spread of 1,200 NM.
Türkiye will export jet trainers to Spain
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) signed a partnership settlement with Airbus at IDEF 2025 to export as much as 30 Hurjet superior jet trainers to Spain.
The deal outlines every firm’s position in Spain’s jet coach procurement and goals to… pic.twitter.com/P0exgaUYzo
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TAI says the Hürjet permits straightforward dealing with with excessive Angle of Assault (AoA) controllability; a full authority, Digital Fly-by-Wire Flight Management System; aerial refueling functionality; Auxiliary Energy Unit (APU) for autonomous operations; a full glass cockpit with Head-up Show (HUD); Helmet Mounted Show (HMD); State-of-the-art HMI (Human-Machine Interface); NVIS (Night time Imaginative and prescient Imaging System) compatibility; datalinks and Embedded Tactical Coaching & Stay Digital Constructive Coaching programs.
Two prototypes of Türkiye’s first domestically produced jet coach and lightweight assault plane Hurjet seen in flight as they arrive in Istanbul for IDEF 2025 pic.twitter.com/FYevBMQPUh
— Türkiye In the present day (@turkiyetodaycom) July 20, 2025
TAI, GE Aerospace and Turkish Engine Industries (TEI) have additionally partnered via an MoU for the F404 -GE-102 turbofan engine to fly the Hurjet. This settlement consists of native meeting and full MRO (Upkeep Restore and Overhaul) of the F404 powerplant.
