Alenia Aeronautica: 1000 flight hours for the C-27Js of the Italian Air Force | |
Roma,16 November 2007
The fleet of the C-27Js currently in service with the Italian Air Force has
reached 1000 flight hours. The first of the four aircraft in service, based in
Pisa, 46th Air Wing Headquarters, had entered into service last 11th of
January, while the second one had been delivered in May and the third one in
July. The fourth aircraft has been delivered last week, and the fifth will be
ready for acceptance tests by the end of the month. All C-27Js ordered by ItAF
will be delivered by mid-2008.
At present the C-27J is in service in Greece, Italy, Lithuania and Bulgaria.
Also, one of Alenia Aeronautica's demonstrators is located at Waco's L3
Communications factory, in Texas, U.S., for a series of joint tests with L3
prime contractor, carried out within the U.S. Army's and Air Force's JCA
programme, Joint Cargo Aircraft.
The C-27Js fleet in the world have reached so far over 4600 flight hours and
have operated with an excellent operational availability rate, that has reached
last March 100% for the aircraft in service at ItAF.
The C-27J has already operated in the most complex scenarios like Iraq and
Afghanistan, also on unpaved runways, with excellent results both from the
point of view of technical reliability and of operational performances.
The C-27J, with its 110 aircraft ordered (plus 7 for Romania, whose contract
is under negotiation) is today the best-selling tactical airlifter of its
category.
The C-27J - the only aircraft of its category specifically designed for the
tactical transport - is a turboprop twin-engine aircraft provided with
state-of-the-art technology in the field of avionics, propulsion and systems.
The aircraft offers superior and cost-effective performances in any operational
condition and extreme mission flexibility and is uniquely interoperable and
interchangeable with heavier military airlifter.
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