Aircraft
JF-17 Thunder Gets First Export Customer
First delivery is due in 2017.
The JF-17s being displayed at Paris come from No. 26 Squadron “Black Spiders” of the Pakistan Air Force.
The JF-17s being displayed at Paris come from No. 26 Squadron “Black Spiders” of the Pakistan Air Force.

Being exhibited at the Paris Air Show for the first time, the PAC/Chengdu JF-17 Thunder has secured a first export customer, according to the program office. Details of the customer, or the number of aircraft involved, remain undisclosed, but the first delivery is due in 2017. Furthermore, Air Commodore Khalid Mahmood, chief executive for JF-17 sales and marketing, told AIN that there were “12 interested countries at different stages.”


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