diff --git a/tests/test_brevitas_export.py b/tests/test_brevitas_export.py
index f513a79da10d9d93cc34d659157ea39f7c13dabb..821306ec673d5eed6d8b13360cd5a74254fb0c4a 100644
--- a/tests/test_brevitas_export.py
+++ b/tests/test_brevitas_export.py
@@ -117,6 +117,46 @@ def test_brevitas_to_onnx_export():
     os.remove(export_onnx_path)
 
 
+def test_brevitas_trained_lfc_pytorch():
+    # load pretrained weights into LFC-w1a1
+    lfc = LFC(weight_bit_width=1, act_bit_width=1, in_bit_width=1).eval()
+    checkpoint = torch.load(trained_lfc_checkpoint, map_location="cpu")
+    lfc.load_state_dict(checkpoint["state_dict"])
+    # download some MNIST test data
+    try:
+        os.remove("/tmp/" + mnist_onnx_filename)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+    dl_ret = wget.download(mnist_onnx_url_base + "/" + mnist_onnx_filename, out="/tmp")
+    shutil.unpack_archive(dl_ret, mnist_onnx_local_dir)
+    # load one of the test vectors
+    input_tensor = onnx.TensorProto()
+    with open(mnist_onnx_local_dir + "/mnist/test_data_set_0/input_0.pb", "rb") as f:
+        input_tensor.ParseFromString(f.read())
+    input_tensor = torch.from_numpy(nph.to_array(input_tensor)).float()
+    assert input_tensor.shape == (1, 1, 28, 28)
+    # do forward pass in PyTorch/Brevitas
+    produced = lfc.forward(input_tensor).detach().numpy()
+    expected = [
+        [
+            3.3253,
+            -2.5652,
+            9.2157,
+            -1.4251,
+            1.4251,
+            -3.3728,
+            0.2850,
+            -0.5700,
+            7.0781,
+            -1.2826,
+        ]
+    ]
+    assert np.isclose(produced, expected, atol=1e-4).all()
+    # remove the downloaded model and extracted files
+    os.remove(dl_ret)
+    shutil.rmtree(mnist_onnx_local_dir)
+
+
 def test_brevitas_to_onnx_export_and_exec():
     lfc = LFC(weight_bit_width=1, act_bit_width=1, in_bit_width=1)
     checkpoint = torch.load(trained_lfc_checkpoint, map_location="cpu")