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Alenia Aeronautica: first C-27J delivered to the US Armed Forces in Waco, Texas

Waco, Usa - This 2.04 billion dollar contract for the tactical transport aircraft is the greatest export success ever for an airplane designed and manufactured in Italy

"Finmeccanica, its subsidiaries Alenia Aeronautica and Alenia North America, and its US partner L-3 have delivered the first of the 78 C-27Js Spartan ordered last year within the Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) programme, the joint US Army and Air Force programme for a tactical transport aircraft. The plane was delivered yesterday in Waco, Texas to the United States’ Armed Forces. 'The delivery of t...

fra/pec - 1095371
Rome, Italy, 10/16/2008 12:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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