Canadair CT-114 Tutor variant
Canadair CT-114 Tutor CL-41G-5 Tebuan
The export version for Malaysia: twenty ground-attack aircraft with an uprated engine and underwing hardpoints, known in service as the Tebuan. They flew between 1967 and 1986.
- 20
- Units built
History
Canadair also developed an armament training and light attack variant, designated CL-41G. This model was powered by an uprated engine and fitted with underwing hard points, which allowed the carriage of various external stores, up to 4,000 pounds, that is 1,814 kg, of weapons and drop tanks.
During March 1966 the Royal Malaysian Air Force ordered a batch of twenty examples of the CL-41G-5 Tebuan, with serials M-22-01 to M22-11, as counterinsurgency aircraft. The name Tebuan means wasp in the Malay language. The type entered service in Malaysia in 1967 and the air force operated it for more than twenty years, in the ground-attack and fighter-bomber roles.
The last Tebuan was withdrawn from service in June 1986, having been replaced by the Italian Aermacchi MB-339A. Following their retirement, the majority of the fleet was retained and placed into local storage for over a decade. Two examples, registered M22-01 and M22-04, are displayed at the Royal Malaysian Air Force museum at Simpang Base, Sungai Besi, Kuala Lumpur.
Some airframes ended up in private hands outside Malaysia. As of August 2011 there were three CL-41Gs on the United States civil registry, while none were so registered in Canada. In 2001 the actor John Travolta gave a CL-41G to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.