3rd C-295 plane ordered by PAF arrives at Clark Air BaseBy: Frances Mangosing - Reporter / @FMangosingINQINQUIRER.net / 07:31 PM December 11, 2015
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/746855/746855The third and last brand new C-295 transport plane ordered by the Philippine Air Force (PAF) arrived at the Clark Air Base from Spain on Friday.
Three Airbus C-295 planes worth P5.29 billion were ordered by the Philippine Air Force in a bid to boost humanitarian assistance and disaster response. The first two arrived early this year.
The C-295 planes are the first batch of brand new military transport aircraft in three decades. The last new military transport planes that the Philippines had were F-27 Fokker aircraft in the 1980s.
The third plane with tail number 142 touched down at Clark at 5:51 p.m., said Air Force spokesperson Col. Enrico Canaya. It left Seville, Spain, last Dec. 4 and made stopovers in several countries.
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