In a statement released on 16 January, the AOI said its chairman, Mokhtar Abdel-Latif, had met a South Korean delegation that included members of parliament and senior officials from KAI and Hanwha Aerospace.
AOI and KAI strategize on localizing advanced training aircraft manufacturing technology for armed forces, aiming to export to African and Arab nations. The focus, likely on the T-50 Golden Eagle, was showcased at Egypt’s Pyramids Air Show in August 2022.
Discussions centered on executing AOI’s agreement with KAI to localize advanced training aircraft technology for export to African and Arab countries, leveraging the capabilities of the Arab Organization for Industrialization’s aircraft factory.
Partnerships were also discussed to deepen and increase the proportions of local manufacturing, transfer and localization of technology, by taking advantage of the manufacturing capabilities of Arab Industrialization and the expertise enjoyed by the South Korean industry.
Senior officials of the Korea Aerospace Industries Company (KAI) stressed the importance of implementing the agreement with the Arab Organization for Industrialization to localize the technology of manufacturing advanced training aircraft.
The Egyptian Air Force plans to purchase new basic and advanced flight training aircraft to replace the fleet of obsolete machines. It was reported that the AOI Aircraft Factory in Helwan was producing more than 94% of the aircraft when the 120th and final new K-8E was delivered in May 2010. Czech Aero Vodochody offered its new TCB L-39NG.
In December 2021, the Italian Leonardo group offered the M-346 “Master” jet TCB or its reduced version of the M-345 to replace the K-8E. However, since then, the media has not reported on any progress in negotiations on this program.
The aircraft will be manufactured at the AOI aviation plant in Helwan, which previously assembled Chinese K-8E training aircraft for the Egyptian Air Force under license.
The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle is a family of South Korean supersonic advanced jet trainers and light combat aircraft, developed by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) with Lockheed Martin. The T-50 is South Korea’s first indigenous supersonic aircraft and one of the world’s few supersonic trainers. 
The aircraft entered active service with the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) in 2005.The T-50 has been further developed into aerobatic and combat variants, namely T-50B, TA-50, and FA-50. A F-50 single-seat multirole fighter variant was considered before being cancelled.
The T-50B serves with the South Korean air force’s aerobatics team. The T-50 has been ordered by a number of countries and entered into service in some of them.
