Two AK-1 aircraft were produced by the 2nd Air Maintenance Center (HIBM). The project was based on the story of 2 Turkish pilots, Capt. Fethi and Capt. Sadik, who have passed away in the plane crash during their flight from Istanbul to Cairo in a Bleriot XI in 1914. Both AK-1 undertook the same flight and reached to Cairo using the Bleriot XI's similar historic route in 2001. Fethi, is one of them and is preserved in magnificent air museum in Ankara.