CASA C-212

Airbus C-212
C-212 at ILA 2002
Type:	Lightweight STOL - transport aircraft
Design country:	Spain
Manufacturer:	CASA Airbus Military Airbus Defense and Space IPTN
First flight:	March 22, 1971
Commissioning:	March 18, 1974 ( Spanish Air Force )
Production time:	1971-2012 (Spain); 1975–1993, since 2016 (Indonesia)
Number of pieces:	456 (including 94 in Indonesia) (Airbus, as of February 2018)

The Airbus C 212 “Aviocar” is a transport aircraft developed for military purposes by the former Spanish CASA , which has merged into today's Airbus Defense and Space . The model was the answer of the aircraft manufacturer CASA to the demands of many air forces for a light transport aircraft that can also be used in undeveloped areas without a paved runway . It is also used by civil aviation companies.

description

In order to meet these requirements, the C 212 was specially developed as a high-decker with a rigid chassis . She is equipped with turboprop engines, has STOL properties, but no pressurized cabin . The first flight took place on March 26, 1971.

Thanks to the spacious cabin and the rear loading ramp, the C 212 can be used very well as a tactical transporter. Thanks to the payload of 2950 kg, everything from 25 paratroopers to 12 stretchers and 4 doctors to jet engines can be transported.

Various special versions were developed from the normal version, for example for maritime surveillance or electronic warfare.

To date, 477 aircraft have been sold in 40 countries.

Since the integration of CASA's military aircraft division into Airbus Military , the C-212 has also been part of the Airbus product range .

The Indonesian company Nurtanio (later IPTN ) built a total of 94 units (factory numbers 1N to 66N and 68N to 95N) of the C 212 as NC-212s under license between 1975 and 1993. Airbus signed a contract with the Indonesian company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI, also IAe / Indonesian Aerospace) in 2013 to develop a new variant called the NC 212i. The first machines of this type were delivered to the Philippine Air Force , Vietnam and Thailand.

The machines temporarily used with the 6th Special Operations Squadron (16th Special Operations Wing) of the USAF were called CASA C-41A there .

Military operator

Air Force Special Operations Command C-41A (C-212-200).

Cockpit of an Air Force Special Operations Command C-212

An Argentine Coast Guard C-212

Swedish Coast Guard C-212

•  Abu Dhabi
•  Equatorial Guinea
•  Angola
•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Bophuthatswana
•  Botswana
•  Chile
•  Dominican Republic
•  Djibouti
•  Ecuador
•  France
•  Indonesia
•  Jordan
•  Colombia
•  Lesotho

Lesotho Defense Force

•  Mexico
•  Malta
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama
•  Paraguay
•  Philippines
•  Portugal
•  Senegal
•  Zimbabwe
•  Spain
•  South Africa
•  Suriname
•  Sweden
•  Thailand
•  Transkei
•  Chad
•  Uruguay ( Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya )
•  United States

United States Air Force - as C-41A.

United States Coast Guard

•  Venda
•  Venezuela
•  Vietnam
•  Zaire

Incidents

From the first flight in 1971 to December 2017, the CASA C-212 suffered 84 total aircraft losses. 598 people died in 60 of them. Examples:

• On January 15, 1990, a CASA C-212-200 of the Costa Rican Sansa Regional Airline (SANSA) (TI-SAB) was flown into a cloud-shrouded mountain after taking off from San José Airport 16 km away. All 23 occupants (3 crew members and 20 passengers) were killed in this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) during a visual flight (see SANSA flight 32 ) .

• On 19 December 2001 a CASA was C-212 Aviocar of Dirgantara Air Services (PK-VSB) at the Airport Long Bawan discharged just with the engine running, was killed as a person who helped with unloading by a propeller (see also air accident a CASA Aviocar at Long Bawan Airport 2001 ) .

• On April 11, 2002, a CASA C-212 Aviocar of Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter (PK-ZAI) at Sabang-Maimun Saleh Airport had rolled off the apron for take-off when a person who had been delayed for the flight entered the apron , ran towards the machine and was killed by the running propeller (see also flight accident of a CASA Aviocar at Maimun Saleh Airport 2002 ) .

• On November 27, 2004, a CASA C-212 Aviocar of the Presidential Airways (N960BW) belonging to Blackwater Worldwide had an accident on the flight from Bagram to Farah within Afghanistan . The passengers were three members of the US Army . The relatively inexperienced pilots had flown into a canyon with no exit; trying to turn it stalled and crashed. Five of the six passengers died in the crash. One passenger survived eight to ten hours after the crash (see also Aircraft Accident Blackwater 61 ) .

• On September 29, 2011, a Nusantara Buana Air (PK-TLF) CASA C-212 was lost on the flight from Medan to Kuta Cane . The wreck was discovered five days later and only the deaths of the 14 passengers and the four crew members were found.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data of the C-212-200	Data of the C-212-400
crew	2	2
length	15.16 m	16.15 m
span	19 m	20.28 m
height	6.29 m	6.60 m
Wing area	40 m²	41.00 m²
Wing extension	9.0	10.0
Empty mass	3915 kg	4550 kg
Takeoff mass	7400 kg	8100 kg
drive	two Honeywell TPE331 -10 with 912 HP (671 kW) each	two AlliedSignal TPE331-12JR with 1100 WPS (820 kW) each, reduced to 925 WPS (690 kW)
Top speed	385 km / h	365 km / h
Service ceiling	8500 m	8500 m
Range	1620 km	2000 km

literature

• Nikolaus Krivinyi: Taschenbuch der Luftflotten 1976. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1976.

Web links

Commons : CASA C-212  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• EADS CASA C-212, Fuerza Aérea de Chile
• Cabin of the maritime reconnaissance version ( memento of November 29, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Maritime patrol aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force ( Memento of May 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} CASA Aviocar production list
2. ↑ ^{a b} NC212i Light Transport Aircraft airforce-technology.com
3. ^ Orders, Deliveries, In Operation Military aircraft by Country - Worldwide. Airbus.com , archived from the original on April 14, 2018 ; accessed on April 16, 2018 (English). 
4. ↑ Airbus Military delivers last C212-400 assembled in Spain. The delivery of this aircraft marks moment of Spanish aviation history. (No longer available online.) In: airbusmilitary.com. Airbus Military , January 24, 2013, archived from the original on September 6, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2013 (English). 
5. ↑ Integration of MTAD implemented at Airbus. In: Flugrevue.de. Flug Revue , April 15, 2009, accessed June 2, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Airbus Military and PTDI sign detailed development plan for NC212i. In: defense-aerospace.com. Airbus Group , March 27, 2013, accessed June 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ IAe ready to deliver two NC212i transports to Philippines, Flightglobal, November 7, 2016
8. ↑ Thailand receives first NC212i aircraft. In: Shephard Media. Shephard Media, October 25, 2019, accessed February 12, 2020 . 
9. ↑ International Air Power Review: Air Power Intelligence. Vol. 7, 2003, p. 14.
10. ↑ CASA 212 accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 1, 2020.
11. ^ Accident report CASA 212 TI-SAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 6, 2019.
12. ^ Accident report CASA 212 PK-VSB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2020.
13. ↑ Casa 212 Aviocar | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Accessed January 2, 2020 . 
14. ^ Claudio Müller: Airplanes of the World 2007. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-613-02740-2 , p. 117.