The Goshawk
The two-seat, single-engine T-45 Goshawk is the heart of the training system. The aircraft has a wingspan of 30.8 feet, a length of 39.3 feet, a tail height of 13.5 feet and a takeoff gross weight of 13,636 pounds. The U.S. Navy's T-45 Goshawk is powered by a Rolls-Royce Adour F405-RR-401 engine producing 5,527 pounds of thrust. The Goshawk's design is based on the British Aerospace Hawk. However, design modifications were made to the Goshawk to make the aircraft suitable for carrier-based operations. The modifications include a new slatted wing, strengthened nose and main landing gear, a strengthened airframe and the addition of an arresting hook and catapult launch fittings. The aircraft is designed to excel in the rigorous environment of
naval aviation training. It has been fatigue tested successfully to demonstrate a service life well beyond the contractually required design life of 14,400 flight hours. The T-45A (with an analog cockpit) made its first flight in April 1988 and is fully
operational at NAS Kingsville, Tx., where it replaced the T-2C intermediate and TA-4J advanced jet trainers. The latest significant upgrade, the T-45C (with a digital cockpit) made its first flight in October 1997. The delivery of the first T-45C to NAS Meridian, Miss. was celebrated in a ceremony Dec. 15, 1997. The first class of student naval aviators to be trained in the T-45C arrived at NAS Meridian on July 8, 1998, and earned their wings in April 1999. The T-45C has replaced the older TA-4J advanced trainer at NAS Meridian and completed its replacement of the intermediate trainer, the T-2C Buckeye, in August 2004. T-45s have made more than 32,000 arrested landings aboard aircraft carriers
since entering service in 1992, and more than 2,500 new aviators have earned their wings in the T-45. The digital cockpit — which is more representative of current tactical fighter configurations — will enhance the Navy's ability to train pilots destined for sophisticated U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft. The T-45C uses a 1553 bus and has two multi-function displays in each cockpit these provide navigation, weapon delivery, aircraft performance and communications data. It also has a global positioning inertial navigation system and a head-up display in the forward cockpit that provides navigation, weapon aiming and status information.
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