Ecuador Receives Airbus C295; Gunship Sale Could Be Imminent
Ecuador's air force will take three C295s by year-end and retire the last of its Avro 748s.
One of three C295s ordered by Ecuador takes off from Airbus’s Sevilla-San Pablo facility for a test flight. (Photo: Airbus)
One of three C295s ordered by Ecuador takes off from Airbus’s Sevilla-San Pablo facility for a test flight. (Photo: Airbus)

On June 6 Airbus Defence and Space’s Military Aircraft division handed over the first of three C295 medium transport aircraft to the Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana. The service ordered the aircraft for a range of military and humanitarian transport missions and will use them to support populations in remote and mountainous regions of the country. All three C295s are to be delivered before the end of the year, and their arrival will allow the last elderly Avro 748s to be retired.

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