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Leonardo M-346 Master

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Twin turbofan advanced jet trainer and fighter aircraft. Includes T-100 US variant, M-346FA Fighter Attack variant, and Beechcraft M-346N.

Photo: Textron

Lift type

Fixed wing

Assembly

Factory-built

Control

Piloted

Engine type

Turbofan

Application

Fighter, Trainer

Design & construction

The aircraft as engineered: what it is built from, the systems it flies with, and its configuration — each box a theme.

Airframe & structure

Landing gear

Retractable tricycle

Ice protection

Bleed air

Pressurisation

Pressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Full FBW digital

Autopilot

3-axis

Avionics architecture

Integrated glass suite

Environmental control

Engine-bleed air-cycle

Configuration & certification

Planform

Swept

Tail

Conventional

continued

Certification

Military

Minimum crew

Notable technologies — each tag names a technology on our research record for this aircraft, with its fitting status: Primary, Standard, Option or Planned.

Head-up display Standard Synthetic vision Standard

Technical reference compiled with AI research; a value appears only where two independent research passes and a web fact-check agree. Gaps are deliberate.

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Notes
Leonardo M-346 Master	2000 / 2004	Production: 8 (2024) Greece's remaining eight M-346B aircraft (of ten total) are inferred delivered in 2024 and into early 2025 per the HAF's published schedule of 'total of 10 by May 2025'. Polot.net cited 88 units delivered as of April 2024 and Wikipedia cited 103 as o [medium]. Baseline variant, includes T-100 variant for USAF's T-X Program.
Leonardo M-346FA	2017 / 2017	Fighter attack variant, includes predecessor M-346FT, the fighter trainer variant (launched 2015).
Beechcraft M-346N	2025 /	Advanced trainer variant assembled in USA, for US Navy Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) program.

Airframer

Leonardo	News
Textron Aviation Defense LLC	News	Beechcraft M-346N

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