Companies Continue Collab For Foreign Air Forces

Embraer and SNC announced at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference that they agreed on the purchase of one A-29 Super Tucano for a foreign partner, pending approval of a Foreign Military Sale case.

The aircraft will be manufactured at Embraer’s defense production line in Jacksonville, Florida, and SNC’s foreign partner will begin pilot training upon the contract award. The investment will also reduce the time to IOC, or Initial Operational Capability by nearly a year.

SNC and Embraer have been collaborating on such deals for a decade and have delivered almost 50 multi-mission combat aircraft to air forces around the world.

Frederico Lemos, Chief Commercial Officer of Embraer Defense & Security said, “It is with great satisfaction that we see the A-29 made in the United States continuing its successful history. The Super Tucano offers unmatched light attack and multi-mission capabilities that are both effective and affordable to meet U.S. and Allied Force’s needs.”

“At the same time, we are confident that our relationship with SNC, which extends for more than 10 years, will continue to expand given that an increased number of FMS customers are seeing a growing need for this sort of capability,” he added.

Ray Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Technology for SNC said, “SNC is well known for investing early and often in programs we believe in to expedite progress and performance on behalf of the warfighter. By proactively pursuing this aircraft we are happy to provide faster IOC and increased training time for the pilots who will soon fly this aircraft. We’ve long known the benefits of the A-29 Super Tucano and with increasing FMS demand worldwide, we’re proud to continue offering this outstanding aircraft to the US and its allies and we look forward to continuing our longstanding relationship with Embraer.”

FMI:  www.embraer.com/ , www.sncorp.com/