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First Royal Canadian Air Force C295 makes maiden flight
Seville, 5 July 2019 - The first Airbus C295, purchased by the Government of Canada for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement (FWSAR) program, has completed its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards delivery by the end of 2019 to begin operational testing by the RCAF. The aircraft, designated CC-295 for the Canadian customer, took off from Seville, Spain, on 4 July at 20:20 local time (GMT+1) and landed back on site one hour and 27… (www.airbus.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The RCAF replaced the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar by the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, both are equipped with an aft ramp cargo door. The EADS CASA (Airbus) C-295 also has an aft ramp door. Even the CASA C-212 has an aft ramp door. The De Havilland/Bombardier Q-400 does not.
Yep yep...It's why RCAF didn't even consider those modded Dash 8's.
Fantastic plane. It´s a Pity that Airbus has erased any capability of Seville Factory to design small transport/Multitask planes. It seems as if Germany wanted to control everything, and spanish politicians allow it.
Ummm...do not kid yourself...Spain is very important to Airbus with it's ability to design, engineer and manufacture composites. Don't forget, it also is the main section where tooling gets designed and made and that is a whole lot of important. And U think it would be HQ that would stipulate who designs what.
https://www.airbus.com/defence/c295/C295FWSAR.html
Reminds me of the C119
Reminds me of the C119
Hey Matt! It's the mission of the C295 that reminds you of the C119. Right? I looked and looked at the picture of C295 and saw no resemblance. :) As a kid in the 50's I would spend hours watching the C-119 take-off and land at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. To this day the C-119 still fascinates me.
More RCAF news... http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/article-template-standard.page?doc=418-squadron-flies-again/jxxoc1t0