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Embraer has started the flight crusade for Portugal, its first foreign visitor for navigation and the tanker C/KC-390.
The company announced the progress on September 1, publishing photographs and videos of the aircraft in a completely gray livery of the Portuguese Air Force and with the Brazilian transitional registration PT-ZDK. He did reveal when the first flight event from his gaviao Peixoto took position. place.
“Currently, activities in flight tests that meet the express needs of the Portuguese State and are authorized by the Brazilian authorities, adding the National Civil Aviation Agency and the Institute for Coordination and Industrial Development,” said Embraer.
After the completion of this work, the C-390 lead from Lisbon will be transported to Portugal, where it will go through the installation of devices according to NATO standards. The activity will be carried out with the participation of the local subsidiary of the aircraft. manufacturer, OGMA, before obtaining certification from the national aeronautical authority of the European country.
“All activities are monitored through the FAP [Portuguese Air Force], and the first deliveries will begin in 2023,” Embraer said.
Portugal became in 2019 the first export visitor to have interaction on the C/KC-390, with its acquisition for a total of five aircraft, plus assistance and a flight simulator. Lisbon also has the option of later extending the length of its fleet to six.
Embraer notes that Portugal’s participation in the program includes development and production, which translates into “a positive economic effect on job creation, new investments, increased exports and technological advances. “The structures of the aircraft are manufactured in Évora, in the center. of the country, in sites originally established through Embraer but acquired since then through Aernnova.
The company’s other export buyers for the type are Hungary, which will take the first of two shipping planes in 2024, and the Netherlands, which signed earlier this year for five. The brazilian Air Force’s top operator has won five. of the 22 copies under contract.
In addition, Embraer announced on August 29 that the KC-390 will make its first appearance at the Air Show event in Zeltweg from September 2-3. Lately, Austria operates 3 former Lockheed Martin C-130Ks of the British Royal Air Force in the tactical area. maritime cargo, which, according to the knowledge of Cirium’s fleets, are between 54 and 55 years old.
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