STEN primary trainer?

WI various air forces introduced vastly simplified primary trainer airplanes?

Consider that the DH Tiger Moth was the most efficient trainer from a British perspective because it required very little (by weight) strategic materials and kept thousands of semi-skilled workers employed. The TM's disadvantage was its high labor cost.

Bjucker Jungmeister was not much better when you count parts.

Since WW2, light plane manufacturers have invented numerous ways to reduce parts count and labor to build basic trainers.

How could simplified construction improve the number of trained pilots?
How would different nations solve the question?
 

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I would think one of the big difficulties is that a military grade primary trainer still has to be built as solid as the proverbial "brick outhouse" and aeronautically forgiving; to withstand the ministrations of student pilots landing on a variety of field surfaces. Simple and safe to fly, plus sturdy have some technical challenges.
 
IMHO, The Miles Master is basically what you are talking about. Purpose designed elementary trainer, wooden construction, can be mass produced as required.
 
An RAF ab initio training aircraft was the Miles M.14 Magister. Miles came up with an M.18 with simplified construction, the STEN version.
 
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