PESHAWAR, Aug 9: Test flight of Super-7 aircraft, Pakistan’s first medium high-tech fighter plane built with Chinese technical assistance, will take place later this month in China, participants of a seminar were told here on Friday.

“Though flying missions have recently taken place, formal test flight to exhibit the aircraft before the world would take place during the current month in China,” said Air Commodore Pervez Sadiq, member of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra.

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