“The L-39 is versatile, seeing duty in light attack missions as well as basic and advanced pilot training, and is the most widely-used war bird in the world."

The L-39 aircraft is a low-wing, tandem seating, all metal turbofan powered aircraft designed for basic and advanced training, including weapon delivery practicing, as well as for light attack tasks. Some key advantages of the L-39 include:

• Maximum Speed: 910 km/h
• Maximum G-Force: 8
• Excellent handling characteristics
• High reliability
• Easy to maintain and service

The L-39 is the most popular war bird in production. The entire fleet, covering more than 2,800 delivered L-39 aircraft worldwide, has accumulated over 4,000,000 flying hours. The war bird's specifications are:

• Engine: One 3,792-lb thrust Ivchenko AI-25-TL
• Weight: Empty 7,340 lbs., Max Takeoff 11,618 lbs.
• Wing Span: 31ft. 0.5in. Length: 40ft. 5in. Height: 15ft. 5.5in
• Ceiling: 37,730 ft. (Trainer, clean)
• Range: 528 miles with internal fuel; 995 miles with external tanks
• Armament (L-39ZO): Up to 2,425 pounds of weapons
• Four hard points, including bombs, 57- or 130-mm rocket pods,
• gun pods, a five-camera reconnaissance pod, or two fuel drop-tanks. Centreline point carried a pod-mounted 23-mm twin-barrel GSh-23 cannon with 180 rounds