In July 1979 Gulfstream American (later Gulfstream Aerospace) revealed its plans to develop the Peregrine as a military trainer on the basis of its Hustler 500, an unusual executive jet powered by a nose mounted turboprop and a tail mounted turbofan. The trainer was based closely on the Hustler 500 without accommodation for a passengers in the fuselage, with out tip tanks, and with the forward revised to eliminate the turboprop and provide side by side seating for the pupil and instructor. The structure was out of the conventional all metal type with a semi monocoque fuselage and cantilever low set wings. First flown in May 1981, the peregrine had drag reducing Whitcomb wing lets on the upper surface of the wing tips, though these were later moved to the under surfaces. The engine was located in the rear of the fuselage, an was aspirated via a dorsal inlet whose aft contours formed the structural basis for the swept tail surface. The sole prototype crashed in November 1983, and further development was abandoned.

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