BAE Systems Hawk
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![A Royal Air Force Hawk T1A at Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, with its pilot.](/Images/godic/202412/22/Raf_hawk_t1a_xx205_arp5601.jpg")
![The RAF Red Arrows depart the 2014 Royal International Air Tattoo, England, in a colour scheme that commemorates their 50th year.](/Images/godic/202412/22/RAF_Red_Arrows_depart_RIAT_Fairford_14thJuly2014_arp5601.jpg")
![A Hawk T2 of the Royal Air Force in 2009](/Images/godic/202412/22/HawkT2-ZK0205601.jpg")
The BAE Systems Hawk is a British single-engine, jet-powered advanced trainer aircraft. It was first flown at Dunsfold, Surrey, in 1974 as the Hawker Siddeley Hawk, and subsequently produced by its successor companies, British Aerospace and BAE Systems, respectively. It has been used in a training capacity and as a low-cost combat aircraft.