Media Galleries : T-50 Golden Eagle

Ten years after the first T-50 rolled out of the Korean Aerospace Industries factory in Sacheon, South Korea, the program has radically improved the way fighter pilots are trained in Korea. Two training squadrons at Gwangju AB operate fifty aircraft and graduate about 140 students per year. The aircraft is also flown by the Black Eagles, the official aerobatic team of the ROKAF.

Ten years after the first T-50 rolled out the Korean Aerospace Industries factory in Sacheon, South Korea, the program has radically improved the way fighter pilots are trained in Korea. Two training squadrons at Gwangju AB operate fifty aircraft and graduate about 140 students per year.

The aerial demonstration team of the Republic of Korea Air Force, the Black Eagles, traded its standard-issue orange and white T-50 trainers for glossy black, white, and yellow T-50Bs for its 2011 show season.

The Black Eagles, the aerobatic team of the Republic of Korea Air Force, exchanged their A-37 light-attack aircraft for T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainers for the 2009 air show season.

The T-50 was designed and developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries to replace the T-38 and train pilots of fifth generation fighter aircraft. The T-50 is built on the legacy of the venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon and is operational today in the Republic of Korea Air Force

Visitors to Gwangju AB see a training operation in full swing. T-50s populate the ramps and shelters at the 203rd Squadron. The wing expects to have two training squadrons flying a total of fifty Golden Eagles by 2009.

KAI Delivers proclaims the caption beneath a large red and blue yin-yang of the Republic of Korea flag. This symbol, the Taeguk, dresses the ramp separating the production facility from the flight test hangars at Korea Aerospace Industries in Sacheon, South Korea.