Canadair started design of a jet trainer in 1958 as a private venture. Controls and systems of the Tutor are relatively simple with hydraulic power to the landing gear, flaps and nosewheel steering, and manual flying controls. The cabin is pressurized and zero-level ejection seats are fitted. It is fully equipped for navigation, instrument and night flying training. The Tutor has side-by-side seating and a single turbojet engine built by Orenda Engines in Canada.
First flown on January 13, 1960, the 190 CL 41A aircraft were built for the Canadian air force as the CT 114 Tutor, ordered into production in 1961. It was used from 1963 until 2000 when it was replaced with the CT-156 Harvard II and the CT-155 Hawk as primary jet trainers.
The Tutor is best known in North America for the formation aerobatics of the Snowbird team who have performed from the Northwest Territories to Mexico. Officially known as 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, the team had fifteen Tutors, eleven of which travel with the team during the airshow season.
In 1965 Canadair was testing a prototype of a counter-insurgency version of the CL-41. The CL-41G was being tested by the USAF Air Commando Wing at Elgin AFB, Florida. Powered by a single Canadian built General Electric Orenda J85 turbojet rated at 3000 lb thrust, the -41G test version featured two 500 lb and two 250 lb bombs under wings, with pair of GE minigun pods under the fuselage.
Following the Canadian aircraft were 20 CL 41G Tebuan light attack derivative for Malaysia, production ending in 1967.
The CL-41R features an extended, pointed nose, as an NASARR (North American Search and Range Radar) electronics training version.
CL-41
Engine: Pratt & Whitney JT-12
CL-41A / CT-114 Tutor
Engine: 2,650 lbs.t. (1202 kgp) Orenda built J85 Can 40 turbojet.
Max speed, 486 mph (782 kph) at 27,500ft (8382m)
Cruise, 356 mph (560 kph)
Initial climb, 4,420 fpm (22.45 m/sec)
Service ceiling, 44,500ft (13564 m)
Range, 944 mls (1519 km)
Empty weight, 4,840 lb (2195 kg)
Loaded weight, 7348 lb (3333 kg)
Max TO weight: 11,288 lb (5131 kg)
Span, 36 ft 4in. (11 m)
Length, 32 ft (9.75 m)
Wing area, 220 sq.ft (20.44 sq.m)
Height: 9 ft 3.75 in (2.84 m).
CL-41G Tebuan
Engine: 1 x General Electric J85-J4 turbojet, 13.1kN
Max Take-off weight: 5120 kg / 11288 lb
Empty weight: 2402 kg / 5296 lb
Wingspan: 11.13 m / 37 ft 6 in
Length: 9.75 m / 32 ft 0 in
Height: 2.76 m / 9 ft 1 in
Wing area: 20.44 sq.m / 220.01 sq ft
Max. speed: 772 km/h / 480 mph
Ceiling: 12860 m / 42200 ft
Range: 2157 km / 1340 miles
Crew: 2
Hardpoints: 6
Armament: 1814kg load
CL-41R
All Aero 