Editing Fuji T-1 (section)

==Design and development==
After World War II, Japanese aircraft industry was banned from research as well as the destruction of materials and equipment related to aircraft. In 1952, a partial ban on aircraft research was lifted, making it possible to develop Japan's own domestic jet aircraft. In the spring of 1954, the Defense Agency's plan to develop a training jet aircraft emerged, which later lead to the development of the T-1 training plane.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=日本の航空宇宙工業 ５０年の歩み 第２章 昭和３０年代；再建の時期|trans-title=50 Years in the Japanese Aerospace Industry Chapter 2: The 1950s; A Period of Reconstruction|url=https://www.sjac.or.jp/common/pdf/toukei/50nennoayumi/4_2_nihonnokoukuki2.pdf|website=一般社団法人日本航空宇宙工業会|publisher=一般社団法人日本航空宇宙工業会 (The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies)|pages=17–19|language=ja|access-date=2020-09-18|archive-date=2021-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007075721/https://www.sjac.or.jp/common/pdf/toukei/50nennoayumi/4_2_nihonnokoukuki2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The T-1 was the first indigenously designed Japanese jet aircraft to be developed since [[World War II]]. It was Japan's first mass-produced jet and the first aircraft to apply a [[swept wing]].<ref name=":0" /> The development of a domestic jet engine was not completed in time, so the T-1A was powered by the British-designed [[Bristol Siddeley Orpheus]] turbojet<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avf863.html#m6|title=[3.0] Naval Sabres & Foreign Sabres|website=www.faqs.org}}</ref> and made its first flight on May 17, 1960.<ref name=":0" /> The T-1B was powered by the [[Ishikawajima-Harima J3]] turbojet<ref name="Odagiri-Goto">{{Cite book
 | last = Odagiri
 | first = Hiroyuki
 | title = Technology and Industrial Development in Japan
 | publisher = Clarendon Press, Oxford
 | year = 1996
 | isbn = 0-19-828802-6
 | pages = 224
}}</ref> and 20 were produced between June 1962 and June 1963.<ref name=":0" /> Fuji was the successor to the Nakajima Aircraft Company (famous for building several aircraft such as [[Nakajima Ki-43]] and [[Nakajima Ki-84]] during WW2). The first aircraft of Fuji's own design was the T-1 jet trainer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1962/1962%20-%201245.html|title=Archives at Flightglobal.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
 | last = International
 | first = Flight
 | title = Flight International
 | publisher = Delaney Gallay, LTD
 | year = 1962
}}</ref>

More than 200 T-1s were to be produced, but with the introduction of the [[Lockheed F-104 Starfighter|Lockheed F-104]]J/DJ fighters, the education system changed and the [[Lockheed T-33|Lockheed T-33A]], which was in large numbers, took on the same role, and only 66 T-1s were introduced.<ref name=":0" />

With the entry into service of its successor, the [[Kawasaki T-4]], flight training with the T-1 was completed in December 2000. The last T-1 was retired on March 3, 2006.{{cn|date=June 2022}}