Vietnam receives first batch of L-39NG jets and awaits US trainers
The 12 L-39NGs jet trainers ordered by Vietnam will replace the country’s fleet of L-39C Albatros jets.
Belgium has now joined eleven other nations that have signed up to the NATO Flight Training Europe (NFTE) programme for pilot training using a network of facilities across Europe. NFTE was launched with a Letter of Intent (LoI) in June 2020.
The other participants are: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Turkey. Training is to be provided for fast-jet, multi-engine, rotary-wing and RPAS pilots.
National pilot training programmes are ‘expensive and difficult’ and many smaller NATO members ‘cannot justify their own national flight centres', said NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană.
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The 12 L-39NGs jet trainers ordered by Vietnam will replace the country’s fleet of L-39C Albatros jets.
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