__NOTOC__ The CASA C-102 was a military

trainer aircraft A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...

designed in

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in the late 1970s but never actually built. The project was initiated by a 1977 request to CASA by the

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for such an aircraft. The company's response was a conventional all-metal

monoplane A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

with a

T-tail A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane is mounted to the top of the fin. The arrangement looks like the capital letter T, hence the name. The T-tail differs from the standard configuration in which the tailplane is ...

, fixed tricycle

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and side-by-side seating for the pilot and instructor. At the end of the following year, the Air Force commenced the formal tendering process for the ''Futuro Avión Ligero Selectivo'' ("Future Selective Light Aircraft"), to which CASA submitted a developed and refined version of the design, now known as the C-102S. The company had also laid out a four-seat utility version as the C-102SE. Interest by the Air Force waned after this, and no order for the aircraft was placed. It was to be a full decade before the Ejército del Aire filled this niche with a modern aircraft, which would eventually be the Chilean ENAER Pillán built under licence by CASA.

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* * {{CASA aircraft 1970s Spanish military trainer aircraft C102 Single-engined tractor aircraft Low-wing aircraft Abandoned military projects of Spain

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