Turkey on Wednesday said its first locally-developed combat aircraft successfully conducted its maiden flight. The jet took off and landed at an airbase in the capital Ankara, footage from state news agency Anadolu showed on Wednesday. Turkey expects to start the jet’s serial production in 2028, according to Anadolu. “Turkey has passed a critical stage towards producing its own fifth generation fighter jet,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a local election rally in the Aegean province of Afyon on Wednesday. The jet will undergo further tests, Erdoğan added. The aircraft named “KAAN” marks …