The small Royal Brunei Air Force (RBAirF), a country located in Southeast Asia, received on January 24 the first two C295MW aircraft from Airbus, from an order for four turboprops.
The Brunei Ministry of Defense had signed a contract with Airbus in December 2022 in order to expand the transport capacity of the RBAirF, which currently has only a single CN235 turboprop.
Predecessor of the C295, the CN2235 has been in service since 1997 and was divided into transport, humanitarian assistance, medical evacuations and search and rescue missions, a role that will be assumed by the new planes.
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The two C295s left the Airbus facility in Seville, Spain, on January 18 and made several stops to reach Brunei, which has a small territory on the island of Borneo.
The Royal Brunei Air Force operates a very small fleet of aircraft that includes four Pilatus PC-7 turboprops and Bell 214 and 206 helicopters.
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The air force’s most numerous aircraft is, however, the Sikorsky S-70 helicopter, of which there are 12 active units.
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