FA 50 Golden Eagle Wall Art — 2 museum-grade prints on the theme. The FA-50 Fighting Eagle — marketed as Golden Eagle in export and community parlance — evolved from Korea Aerospace Industries' T-50 supersonic trainer programme, which Lockheed Martin helped shape so ROKAF pilots could transition cleanly into KF-16 and F-15K fleets. First flight came in 2011; ROKAF declared initial operational capability in 2013 and ordered sixty aircraft through 2016 to replace F-5E/F and A-37 Dragonfly light attack types. The Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50 Golden Eagle is a supersonic light combat aircraft derived from the T-50 advanced trainer, developed jointly with Lockheed Martin and exported to several air forces as a lead-in fighter trainer and light attack platform. The Philippine Air Force signed a contract for twelve FA-50PH aircraft in March 2014 under the Horizon 1 modernization program, with deliveries beginning in November 2015 and completing by May 2017 — restoring a supersonic fighter capability the PAF had lacked since retiring the F-5.