Grob Tutor
Grob Tutor
Description
Role	Basic Trainer
Crew	2
First Flight	November 1985
Entered Service	1999
Manufacturer	Grob
Dimensions
Length	24 ft 9 in	7.59 m
Wingspan	32 ft 8 in	10.00 m
Height	9 ft 2 in	2.8 m
Wing Area	131.3 ft²	12.2 m²
Weights
Empty	lb	kg
Loaded	lb	kg
Maximum Takeoff	2183 lb	990 kg
Powerplant
Engines	1x Lycoming 360 -A1B6
Power	200 hp	149 kW
Performance
Maximum Speed	150 mph	240 km/h
Combat Range	n/a miles	n/a km
Ferry Range	miles	km
Service Ceiling	ft	m
Rate of Climb	1050 ft/min	320 m/min
Wing Loading	lb/ft²	kg/m²
Thrust/Weight
Power/Mass	hp/lb	kW/kg
Avionics
Avionics

The Grob Tutor is a single-engined low-wing monoplane used as a basic training aircraft by the RAF. The aircraft has fixed tricycle undercarriage with spatted wheels, a short nose, and a cabin with a broad canopy and two windows each side. The wings are tapered with square tips and the empennage consists of a large fin and rudder with an oblong tailplane with square tips set at base of fin.

The Tutor is used by the University Air Squadrons to give basic flying training to university students sponsored by the RAF. The UASs also run Air Experience Flights to give flying experience to cadets of the Air Training Corps. The Tutor replaced the Scottish Aviation Bulldog in these roles in the late 1990s. Unusually, the Tutor fleet is owned and maintained by civilian companies and carries British civilian G-XXXX registrations under a PFI scheme.

Units Using the Tutor

• Royal Air Force
  • Aberdeen, Dundee & St Andrews UAS and 12 AEF RAF Leuchars
  • University of Birmingham AS and 8 AEF RAF Cosford
  • Bristol UAS and 3 AEF RAF Colerne
  • Cambridge UAS and 5 AEF RAF Wyton
  • East Lowlands UAS RAF Leuchars
  • East Midlands UAS and 7 AEF RAF Cranwell
  • Universities of Glasgow & Strathclyde AS and 4 AEF Glasgow Airport/Abbotsinch
  • Liverpool UAS Woodvale
  • University of London AS RAF Wyton
  • Manchester & Salford Universities AS and 10 AEF Woodvale
  • Northumbrian Universities AS and 11 AEF RAF Leeming
  • Oxford University AS and 6 AEF RAF Benson
  • Southampton UAS and 2 AEF Boscombe Down
  • University of Wales AS and 1 AEF St Athan
  • Yorkshire Universities AS and 9 AEF RAF Church Fenton

External links

• The RAF Tutor page
• Air Cadets Website