Key facts
- Type
- Advanced trainer and light attack aircraft
- Manufacturer
- Aermacchi
- Status
- Active
- Primary users
- Italian Air Force Eritrean Air Force , United Arab Emirates Air Force
- Manufactured
- 1978–2006
- First flight
- 12 August 1976
- Developed from
- Aermacchi MB-326
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.aermacchi.it/commercial/mb-339
- Image
- Aermacchi MB-339 Freccia Tricolore.jpg
- Height
- 3.60
- Length
- 10.97
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- Commons category
- Aermacchi MB-339
- military designation
- T-339
- Commons gallery
- Aermacchi MB-339
- first flight
- 1976-08-12
- wingspan
- 10.86
- maximum operating altitude
- 14630
- total produced
- 230
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The Aermacchi MB-339 is a military jet trainer and light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Italian aviation company Aermacchi.
The MB-339 was developed during the 1970s in response to an Italian Air Force requirement that sought a replacement for the service's existing fleet of Aermacchi MB-326s. Its design was derived from that of the MB-326, rather than a new design, and thus the two aircraft share considerable similarities in terms of their design. Aermacchi had found that the MB-339 was capable of satisfying all of the specified requirements while being the most affordable option available. The maiden flight of the MB-339 took place on 12 August 1976; the first production aircraft were delivered two years later.