The Atlas ACE is a South African turboprop trainer, that was designed by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation as a contender to replace the North American Harvard in service with the South African Air Force.
The design originated as the 1986 Project Ovid by the government research agency Aerotek, as a composites technology demonstrator.
[1] In 1991 the design was entered into a competition to replace the North American Harvard by the Atlas Aircraft Corporation as the ACE (All Composite Evaluator).
The ACE is a tandem two-seat low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprop.
[1] On 14 January 1995 the prototype was lost in a wheels up landing at Jan Smuts Airport.