A continuing shortage of capacity in its flying training organisation has led the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) to return to training pilots on Hawk T1 aircraft, three years after it retired the analog ...

Aeralis was hoping the UK government would award it a contract to replace the Hawk jets currently flown by the RAF.

Three QFIs from the IAF will deploy to RAF Valley, on the island of Anglesey, to train British student pilots to fly the Hawk T2 or Texan T1. During their tenure, the trio will remain under IAF ...