CASA C-295
Airbus C-295 | |
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Spanish C-295M, Payerne |
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Type: | Tactical transport , maritime reconnaissance and submarine fighter aircraft |
Design country: | |
Manufacturer: | |
First flight: |
December 22, 1998 |
Commissioning: |
October 2001 |
Production time: |
In series production since 2000 |
Number of pieces: |
175 (as of November 2019) |
The Airbus C-295 Persuader is a multipurpose transport, maritime reconnaissance and submarine fighter aircraft manufactured by Airbus Defense and Space , which was developed by the former CASA .
description
The C-295 was developed by the Spanish CASA based on the CN-235 from the end of 1996, initially as a transport aircraft in-house. Compared to the previous model, it has a fuselage that has been lengthened by additional segments in front of and behind the wing, stronger engines and reinforcements on the landing gear and wings. The machine was officially announced at the Paris Air Show in June 1997 and the first prototype (a conversion of a CN-235) flew for the first time in November 1997. The first flight of the first newly built prototype of the machine took place on December 22, 1998.
The first customer (delivery from November 2000) of the transport version was the Spanish Air Force with nine machines. These were put into service in 2001.
Further orders followed, including twelve transporters for Poland (the first two machines ordered in May 2001 were received by the Polish Air Force in August 2003. The order was increased to 17 machines. A replacement for one machine that had crashed was delivered); for the Navy of the United Arab Emirates for maritime surveillance; twelve aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force for the SIVAM Amazon surveillance project; the Royal Jordanian Air Force (two) and the Finnish Air Force .
The machine was inferior in 2007 in the US Army and US Air Force tender for up to 145 aircraft. This important order, initially worth $ 2.04 billion, went to competitor Alenia C-27 .
The equipment of three machines with the name C-295MPA for Chile ordered in October 2007 and delivered from April 2010 and intended for submarine hunting is particularly extensive. For this purpose, magnetic field sensors, an APS-143 (V) 3 radar and four control consoles are installed in the fuselage, among other things in a tail boom.
On June 7, 2011, the AEW & C version with a radome about 6 m in diameter attached to the fuselage had its maiden flight in Seville with pilots Alejandro Madurgas and Alfonso de Castro and two test engineers on board.
Since the integration of CASA's military aircraft division into Airbus Military , the C-295 has also been part of the Airbus product range . The cooperation with Indonesia's present-day Indonesian Aerospace, which had already been tried and tested with the two other transporters of the former CASA, was extended to the C-295 in October 2011.
In November 2019, the order backlog was 210 machines, 175 of which have already been delivered. Two C-295s were destroyed in incidents.
Incidents
- On January 23, 2008, a CASA C-295M of the Polish military crashed near Mirosławiec (Märkisch Friedland) in West Pomerania. All 20 people on board were killed, including Andrzej Andrzejewski . The military were returning from an air safety conference in Warsaw. In foggy conditions, both the crew and the pilots had made mistakes; among other things, the units of length meters and feet were mixed up. Five air force members were released.
- On November 10, 2012, a CASA-295M of the Algerian military crashed on its way from Paris to Algiers at 4:00 p.m. near the village of Trélans in the Lozère department . All six inmates were killed.
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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crew | 2 |
length | 24.50 m |
span | 25.81 m |
height | 8.66 m |
Wing area | 60 m² |
Gauge | 3.98 m |
wheelbase | 8.43 m |
Cabin length | 12.69 m |
Cabin width | 2.70 m |
Cabin height | 1.90 m |
payload | 69–78 soldiers or 27 people lying down + four helpers or three light vehicles or max. 9.7 t of freight or loading space for five standard pallets, each 2.24 m × 2.74 m. |
Empty mass | 11.5 t |
Max. Takeoff mass | 21.0 t |
Max. Landing mass | 20.7 t |
Fuel supply | 8532 l |
Cruising speed | Max. 480 km / h (V MO in 7000 ft) |
Top speed | 550 km / h |
Take-off run | 670 m |
Landing runway | 320 m |
Bet height | 7620 m |
Range | Max. 5630 km 1333 km with max. payload |
Engines | two turboprop Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127G with 1972 kW each, with automatic power reserve 2177 kW |
propeller | Six-blade propeller Hamilton Sundstrand HS-568F-5, diameter 3.89 m |
Versions
C-295M
- Transport version , for which an air refueling kit is also available
C-295MSA "Persuader"
- Maritime surveillance version
C-295SAR
- Search and Rescue version
C-295ASW
- Submarine hunting version
C-295AEW
- Airborne Warning and Control version
AC-295
- Gunship version
C-295SIGINT
- SIGINT version
C-295ISR
- ISR version
C-295W
- Modernized version, equipped with winglets , among other things
C-295 Armed ISR
- C-295ISR, which can be armed with MG (caliber 12.7 mm e.g. M3 Browning ) or cannons ( BK 27 from Rheinmetall) on the rear side doors and in the future also with various missiles and Mk-82 warheads. Airbus has not yet announced the user state (as of November 2017).
User states
- Egyptian Air Force : 24 (originally 12, added from September 2011, later several more orders - all in transport version)
- Marinha de Guerra Angolana (MGA) : 2 C-295MPA (order 2018 authorized)
- Armed Forces: 2 (1 each transport version and MSA version, delivery 2016/17)
- Argentina
- Fuerza Aérea Argentina : 2 C-295 (order announced for 2017/19)
- Air Force : 5 (transport version and MSA version , originally 6, one crashed on November 9, 2012 in France)
- Bangladesh Army Aviation Group : 1 C-295MW (transport version, ordered in 2016)
- Força Aérea Brasileira : 15 C / SC-105 (12 C-105 / transport version, 3 SC-105 / SAR version, the SC-105 with influx in 2017/20)
- Air Force : 1 C-295W (order 2019)
- Armada de Chile : 3 C-295MSA, later converted to C-295ASW
- Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana : 3 (transport version, addition since 2014)
- Forces armées de Côte d'Ivoire : 1 C-295W (order 2019)
- Ghana Air Force : 5 (2 each ordered in 2011 and 2013 plus 1 in 2014 - all in transport version)
- Indian Air Force , 56 (appointed). The test program has been successfully completed and all that is missing is the administrative steps of the procurement department.
- Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Udara (Indonesian Air Force) : 9 (ordered in February 2012, the first two copies were delivered in September 2012)
- Irish Air Corps : 2 C-295 MSA (delivery 2023)
- Royal Jordanian Air Force : 2 (1 C-295M, 1 AC-295)
- Royal Canadian Air Force : 16 CC-295 (In December 2016 the Canadian government decided to purchase the C-295 in a Search and Rescue version.)
- Kazakh Air Force : 8 (originally 4, later more ordered, delivery since January 2013 - all in transport version)
- Kazakh border troops : 1 C-295W in transport version
- Fuerza Aérea Colombiana : 6 (5 incoming until / 1 reordered in 2013 - all in transport version)
- Force Aérienne de la République du Mali : 1 (C-295W)
- Fuerza Aérea Mexicana : 6 (delivery from 2010, all in transport version)
- Armada de México : 6 (delivery from 2009, all in transport version incl. 2 C-295W)
- Royal Air Force of Oman : 8 (delivery from 2013, 5 in transport version , 3 in MSA version )
- Philippine Air Force (PAF) : 4 C-295M (delivered 2015/2016, 2019)
- Siły Powietrzne : 17 (originally 12, order increased by five to 17 in 2012 plus four and a replacement for the one that crashed)
- Home Office: 4 C-295MSAW
- Ejército del Aire : 13
- Royal Thai Army : 1 C-295W (ordered in 2016 - transport version)
- Army of the Czech Republic : 6 C-295 / C-295W (the last two will be delivered in 2021)
- Uzbek Air Force : 4 (ordered in 2014, delivery from 2015)
- United Arab Emirates Air Force : 5 C-295MW (transport version with winglets, ordered in 2017)
- Air Force : 3 (transport version, delivered in 2015)
See also
- List of aircraft types
- Alenia C-27J "Spartan"
- Antonov An-26 "Curl"
- Antonov An-32 "Cline"
- Antonov An-12 "Cub" / Shaanxi Y-8
- ATR 72
- EADS (CASA) CN-235
- De Havilland Canada DHC-4 "Caribou"
- Fiat G.222
- Ilyushin Il-112
- Transall C-160
- Lockheed-Martin C-130J "Super Hercules"
Web links
- C-295 on the official website
- Type certificate of the CN-235 / C-295 - EASA-TCDS-A.186 (PDF; 106 kB, English)
- Technical details in the lexicon of aircraft
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Orders, Deliveries, In Operation Military aircraft by Country - Worldwide. Airbus.com , November 30, 2019, accessed January 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Airbus Military receives certification for anti-submarine C295 MPA. (No longer available online.) In: airbusmilitary.com. Airbus Defense and Space , July 5, 2010, archived from the original on July 23, 2010 ; Retrieved July 6, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The little brothers of the A400M. Flug Revue , July 2010, pp. 57–59.
- ↑ Airbus Military C295. Flug Revue , February 2012, pp. 49–52.
- ↑ C295 now also with rotodrome. Fliegerrevue , August 2011, p. 25.
- ↑ Integration of MTAD implemented at Airbus. In: Flugrevue.de. Flug Revue , accessed April 19, 2011 .
- ↑ Military plane crashed in Poland. ( Memento from September 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: tagesschau.de . January 24, 2008.
- ↑ Bartosz Glowacki: Polish air force dismisses five personnel following C-295 crash report. April 14, 2008, accessed September 20, 2012 .
- ^ Crash de l'avion algérien: quatre corps retrouvés, deux recherchés. In: midilibre.fr. Midi Libre , November 9, 2012, accessed November 10, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Angola announces C295 maritime patrol aircraft order, Janes, March 12, 2017 ( Memento of March 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Beth Stevenson: Equatorial Guinea orders two C295 transports. In: flightglobal.com. Flightglobal, February 2, 2016, accessed June 11, 2016.
- ↑ Argentina moves to rebuild military in 2017, Janes, November 15, 2016 ( Memento from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bangladesh orders single C295W airlifter, Janes, October 11, 2016 ( Memento from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Brazil receives second C295 SAR aircraft, first with air-to-air refueling capability, Janes, November 20, 2019
- ↑ Burkina Faso orders Airbus C295, Janes, December 2019
- ↑ Chile to upgrade C295 maritime patrol aircraft for full ASW capability. June 23, 2017, archived from the original on June 25, 2017 ; Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Angola announces C295 maritime patrol aircraft order, Flightglobal, January 22, 2019
- ↑ Niharika Mandhana, Robert Wall: India Approves Purchase of 56 Airbus C295 transport plan. In: wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal , May 14, 2015, accessed May 21, 2015 .
- ↑ C295W completes Indian flight trials program. August 11, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2016 .
- ^ Greg Waldron: Indonesia receives first two C-295s. In: flightglobal.com. Flightglobal, September 20, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Dublin, Prague bolster Airbus C295 backlog, Flightglobal, December 16, 2019
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fixed-wing-search-planes-1.3885653
- ^ Gareth Jennings: Kazakhstan orders two more C295 airlifters. ( Memento of April 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: janes.com. Jane's Information Group , April 20, 2017, accessed April 23, 2017.
- ↑ Kazakhstan places order for Airbus C295, UK DefenCe Journal, March 21, 2019
- ^ Gareth Jennings: Singapore Airshow 2016: Mali signs up for C295 airlifter, deliveries to Philippines conclude. ( Memento of February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: janes.com. Jane's Information Group , February 15, 2016, accessed June 11, 2016.
- ^ Beth Stevenson: First Philippine air force C295 heads for service. In: flightglobal.com. Flightglobal, March 20, 2015, accessed March 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Philippine Air Force acquires fourth C295M tactical transport, Janes, November 12, 2019
- ↑ Fliegerrevue No. 08/2015, p. 8.
- ↑ Thailand orders C295W transport aircraft, Janes, June 29, 2016 ( Memento from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Czech Army to receive two more C295s, Janes, December 18, 2019
- ↑ Beth Stevenson: Uzbekistan orders four C295s. In: flightglobal.com. Flightglobal, June 30, 2015, accessed June 11, 2016.
- ↑ UAE Armed Forces buys 5 military transport aircraft In: arabianbusiness.com. Arabian Business, November 16, 2017, accessed November 16, 2017.