The FAdeA IA-100 Malvina is an
Argentine 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 ...
developed by the
Fábrica Argentina de Aviones from December 2014. It was first flown in 2016.
Design and development
The IA-100 was developed as a result of a project to demonstrate FAdeA's current design and production capabilities, as a basis for a future indigenous training aircraft. The outcome was a
technology demonstrator
A technology demonstration (or tech demo), also known as demonstrator model, is a prototype, rough example or an otherwise incomplete version of a conceivable product or future system, put together as proof of concept with the primary purpose of ...
that incorporated processes and materials common in many industries but still new to FAdeA, such as
composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials. These constituent materials have notably dissimilar chemical or ...
s.
In August 2020, the
Argentinian Ministry of Defence named the aircraft "Malvina", after Argentina's name for the
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
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Specifications
References
Further reading
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External links
FAdeA IA-100 page
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2010s Argentine military trainer aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2016
FMA aircraft