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Turkish Aeronautical Association () 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 The term "air sports" covers a range of aerial activities, including air racing, aerobatics, aeromodelling, hang gliding, human-powered aircraft, parachuting, paragliding, soaring, and skydiving. Recognized and regulated air sports Many a ...
in
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. The association was founded with the name ''Türk Tayyare Cemiyeti'' (Turkish Aeroplane League) by the directive of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 â€“ 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...
on February 16, 1925. During the 1940s, it operated a factory in
Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
producing aircraft of its own design as well as under licence from British manufacturer
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.Gunston 1995, 304 These manufacturing facilities were purchased in 1952 by
MKEK The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation ( or MKE for short), established in 1950, is a reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with military products. History Its root ...
,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 World Air Sports Federation (; FAI) 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 maintains worl ...
(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. The association also participates in
aerial firefighting Aerial firefighting, also known as waterbombing, is the use of aircraft and other aerial resources to Wildfire suppression, combat wildfires. The types of aircraft used include fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Smokejumpers and rappellers ar ...
and agricultural chemical spraying operations whilst offering aircraft maintenance to third parties.Turkish Aeronautical Association official website
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Training centers


Türkkuşu Training Center

Türkkuşu Training Center in
Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
also serves as the headquarters of THK. Throughout years, Türkkuşu trained many talented aviators including
Sabiha Gökçen Sabiha Gökçen (; 22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot, at age 23. ...
the first female Turkish aviator. The center offers courses on: *
Piloting Piloting or pilotage is the process of navigating on water or in the air using fixed points of reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart or aeronautical chart to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel or air ...
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Parachuting Parachuting and skydiving are methods of descending from a high point in an atmosphere to the ground or ocean surface with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or multiple parachutes. For hu ...
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Gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sports, air sport in which pilots fly glider aircraft, unpowered aircraft known as Glider (sailplane), gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmospher ...
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Flight simulation A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...


İnönü Training Center

Located in
Ä°nönü, EskiÅŸehir Ä°nönü () is a municipality and district of EskiÅŸehir Province, Turkey. Its area is 345 km2, and its population is 6,173 (2022). Its elevation is . Ä°nönü has a strategic location on the Istanbul-EskiÅŸehir railway and Bozüyük-Kütahy ...
, the center runs summer courses on the following air sports activities: * Parachuting * Gliding *
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Paragliding Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended be ...
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Hang gliding Hang gliding is an air sports, air sport or recreational activity in which a pilot flies a light, non-motorised, fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft called a hang glider. Most modern hang gliders are made of an aluminium al ...


Selçuk (Ephesus) Training Center

This center in
Selçuk Selçuk is a municipality and district of Ä°zmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 317 km2, and its population is 38,151 (2022). The town Selçuk is located northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, that was once home to the Temple of Artemis, o ...
,
Ä°zmir Ä°zmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of Ä°zmir Province. In 2024, the city of Ä°zmir had ...
offers courses in: * Piloting * Gliding * Parachuting *
Microlight Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with ailer ...
training


Erzincan Training Center

Located in
Erzincan Erzincan (; ), historically Yerznka (), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Turkish Sunni w ...
, the center runs summer courses on the following air sports activities: * Parachuting * Gliding * Ballooning * Paragliding * Hang gliding


Karain Training Center

Located in
Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...
, the center runs summer courses on the following air sports activities: * Parachuting * Gliding * Ballooning * Paragliding * Hang gliding


Aircraft

* THK-1 * THK-2 * THK-3 * THK-4 * THK-5 * THK-7 * THK-9 * THK-10 * THK-11 * THK-12 * THK-13 * THK-14 * THK-15 *
THK-16 Mehmetçik __NOTOC__ The THK-16 ''Mehmetçik'' (Turkish: "Little Mehmet"The name ''Mehmetçik'' is used in Turkish to refer informally to an archetypal or generic Turkish soldier, analogous to the British Tommy Atkins, Tommy, American GI (military), G.I., ...
* THK-TAYSU


See also

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List of firefighting equipment of Turkey Aerial firefighting Total Turkish aerial firefighting fleet consist of 27 aircraft , 101 helicopters and 10 unmanned aerial vehicles which are used by Ministry of Forest and Agriculture , General Directorate of Forest , Turkish Aeronautical Associa ...
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Tayyare Apartments The Tayyare Apartments (initially or later ) are a complex of four buildings designed by Turkish architect Mimar Kemaleddin, completed in 1922 and located in the old city of Istanbul, Turkey. The apartments were originally built as public housi ...
, redeveloped into five-star hotel in Istanbul


Notes

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References


External links


Official website of THK
(Turkish, English, and French)
UÇANTÜRK
bimonthly journal of aeronautics and space published by THK {{Aviation-org-stub