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Bombardier Maritime Patrol Aircraft for UAE Passes Critical Milestone

The Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) for the UAE passed its critical design review phase, keeping the program on schedule.

By David Donald • Contributor - UK

November 20, 2009

The Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) for the UAE passed its critical design review phase, keeping the program on schedule. The first of two aircraft being converted by Provincial Aerospace Ltd. (PAL) of Canada are to be qualified in the first half of 2011, with service entry slated for later in that year.

PAL and Thales signed the contract for the conversion of two UAE-owned Dash 8 Q300s in late 2008, but the deal was not made public until the IDEX show this February, by which time work was already under way. The deal brought to a close a long-running saga concerning the UAE’s MPA requirements in which Thales and later EADS-CASA had proposals accepted but not continued.

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