BAe Hawk   pre-production
Navigation Menu   Home Aircraft Info Pages Aircraft Images Pages Flight Simulator Pages Hawk Variants Hawk pre-production Hawk Mk.T1 for UK Hawk Mk.T1A for UK Hawk Mk.50 prototype Hawk Mk.51 for Finland Hawk Mk.52 for Kenya Hawk Mk.53 for Indonesia Hawk Mk.60 for Zimbabwe Hawk Mk.61 for Dubai Hawk Mk.62 for Venezuela Hawk Mk.63 for Abu Dubai Hawk Mk.64 for Kuwait Hawk Mk.65 for Saudi Arabia Hawk Mk.66 for Switzerland Hawk Mk.63 for Abu Dubai Hawk Mk.64 for Kuwait Hawk Mk.65 for Saudi Arabia Hawk Mk.66 for Switzerland Hawk Mk.67 for South Korea Hawk Mk.100 prototype Hawk Mk.102 prototype Hawk Mk.103 for Oman Hawk Mk.108 for Malaysia Hawk Mk.109 for Indonesia Hawk Mk.115 for Canada Hawk Mk.127 for Australia Hawk Mk.200 prototype Hawk Mk.201 RDA prototype Hawk Mk.203 for Oman Hawk Mk.208 for Malaysia Hawk Mk.209 for Indonesia T-45A Goshawk for USA T-45C Goshawk for USA Hawk Technical Hawk scale drawings Hawk cut away Hawk profile images Hawk Flight Simulator Hawk models for FS98 Hawk models for FS2000 Hawk models for CFS 1 Hawk models for CFS 2 Hawk Scale Models 1/72nd scale Hawk models 1/48th scale Hawk models	Birth of a thoroughbred The Hawk did not have a prototype as such, as all aircraft were built using production tooling - though the first 6 airframes were used by BAe for flight development trials. These airframes were allocated the UK military serials XX154, XX156-XX160 (XX155 being omitted from the listing). The first to fly was XX154 (build no.001), making the inaugural flight from BAe Dunsfold, Surrey - on the evening of 21st August 1974 around 19:20hrs. The first flight was undertaken by BAe's Chief Test Pilot, Duncan Simpson and he took the Hawk to a max speed of 325kts (602km/h) IAS and to 20,000ft (6,100m), with a total of 53 minutes flying. During the first flight the plane was flown at the approach to the stall, both clean and with the gear & flaps down. XX154 was then displayed at the 1974 SBAC Farnborough airshow, participating in the daily flight program at the show, demonstrating it's performance during it's first public appearance - quite a feat, considering that it had only been flying for 9 days ! During the initial flight trials a very few minor glitches were noted, and no major changes were found necessary to the Hawk. The following 5 airframes were also assigned to flight trials work - the first flights of the pre-production airframes were : XX156 (build no.002) - 19th May 1975 XX157 (build no.003) - 22nd April 1975 XX158 (build no.004) - 1st July 1975 XX159 (build no.005) - 17th June 1975 XX160 (build no.006) - 19th November 1975	Pre-production airframes  XX154 XX156 XX157 XX158 XX159 XX160
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