Short Tucano Trainer – Cost: $1.3 million
This two-seat turboprop basic trainer aircraft, built by Short Brothers in Northern Ireland, is a license-built Brazilian Embraer EMB-312 Tucano. The Royal Air Force is the primary operator, and it occasionally exports the aircraft to Kenya and Kuwait. A prototype flew it’s first flight in 1986 and the Tucano was delivered to the Royal Air Force for the first time in 1988. The Tucano is operated primarily at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. It provides basic fast-jet flying training to RAF and RN student pilots. Student fly roughly 130 hours with the Tucano before progressing to the Hawk T2 aircraft trainer. There is currently a Short Tucano on sale for $1.3 million.