Turkish Aeronautical Association ( tr, Türk Hava Kurumu - THK) is a non-profit organization with an aim of increasing public awareness and participation in aviation related activities and the national body governing air sports in Turkey. The association was founded with the name ''Türk Tayyare Cemiyeti'' (Turkish Aeroplane League) by the directive of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...

on February 16, 1925. During the 1940s, it operated a factory in Ankara producing aircraft of its own design as well as under licence from British manufacturer

Miles The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English ...

.Gunston 1995, 304 These manufacturing facilities were purchased in 1952 by MKEK,Gunston 1995, 208 which produced the THK-15 design in quantity under the designation MKEK-4. THK is a member of

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale The (; FAI; en, World Air Sports Federation) is the world governing body for air sports, and also stewards definitions regarding human spaceflight. It was founded on 14 October 1905, and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It maintai ...

(FAI) since 1929, and has been an active participant in international air sports events and championships, including the organization of the 1st World Air Games hosted by THK in 1997.

Training centers

Türkkuşu Training Center

Türkkuşu Training Center in Ankara also serves as the headquarters of THK. Throughout years, Türkkuşu trained many talented aviators including Sabiha Gökçen the first female Turkish aviator. The center offers courses on: * Piloting *

Parachuting Parachuting, including also skydiving, is a method of transiting from a high point in the atmosphere to the surface of Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes. For ...

Gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word ''soaring'' is al ...

* Construction and running of model aircraft TürkHavaKurumuMüzesiGiriş

İnönü Training Center

Located in

İnönü, Eskişehir İnönü is a town and district of Eskişehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2009 census, population of the district is 7,228 of which 3,980 live in the town of İnönü. The district covers an area of , and the a ...

, the center runs summer courses on the following air sports activities: * Parachuting * Gliding * Ballooning * Paragliding * Hang gliding

Selçuk (Ephesus) Training Center

This center in

Selçuk Selçuk is a town in İzmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, that was once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its previous Greek name, Ag ...

, İzmir offers courses in: * Piloting * Gliding * Parachuting * Microlight training The center also participates in aerial firefighting and agricultural chemical spraying operations in the region.

Aircraft

* THK-01 - WĘDRYCHOWSKI, Jerzy & DULĘBA, Leszek & ROGALSKI, Stanisław & TEISSEYRE, Jerzy - ''Türk Hava Kurumu'' *

THK-2 __NOTOC__ The THK-2 was a single-seat, single-engine aerobatic trainer aircraft developed in Turkey in 1944 intended as an advanced trainer.Taylor 1989, 683"THK-2" It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with an elliptical planform a ...

THK-03 The DFS ''Habicht'' (German: "Hawk") is an unlimited aerobatic sailplane that was designed in 1936 by Hans Jacobs with support provided by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug. Four planes were made available for the Olympic Games of 19 ...

- JACOBS, Hans & DFS - (DFS Habicht) *

THK-04 The Antonov A-1 and related designs were a family of single-seat training gliders produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s. All were derived from the Standard-2 (Стандарт-2) (designed and flown by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov ...

- USSR- Türk Hava Kurumu (''АНТОНОВ УС-4'' (Antonov US-4)) *

THK-5 __NOTOC__ The THK-5 was a twin-engine aircraft designed by Stanisław Rogalski and built in Turkey in 1945 as an air ambulance. It was a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane of wooden construction throughout. The main units of the tailwhe ...

* THK-5A * THK-07 - Antonov, Oleg Konstantinovich & SSBC - Türk Hava Kurumu (Antonov PS-2) * THK-09 - SCHAWROW, W. B. & SSCB - Türk Hava Kurumu * THK-10 *

THK-11 __NOTOC__ The THK 11 was a 1940s prototype Turkey, Turkish four-seat monoplane, designed by Stanisław Rogalski and built by (THK - Turkish Aeronautical Association). Design and development The THK-11 was a high-wing twin-boom cantilever cabin m ...

* THK-12 *

THK-13 The THK-13 was an experimental tail-less glider built by the ''Turk Hava Kurumu Ucak Fabrikasi'' (THK) in Turkey in the late 1940s. Design and development The THK-13 was a tail-less glider, built predominantly from wood with fabric covering, wi ...

* THK-14 * THK-15 * THK-16 Mehmetçik (''Turkish'': " Little Mehmet") * THK-TAYSU (Abbreviations in ''Turkish'': Tarimsal Havacilik ve Yangin Söndürme Uçagi) Agricultural Aviation and Fire Fighting Aircraft

Notes

References

External links

Official website of THK
(Turkish, English, and French)
UÇANTÜRK
bimonthly journal of aeronautics and space published by THK Air sports Parachuting organizations Aircraft manufacturers of Turkey Aviation organizations based in Turkey Air sports Sports organizations established in 1925 Organizations based in Ankara Non-profit organizations based in Turkey 1925 establishments in Turkey {{Turkey-org-stub