The operators include Polish Air Force, UAE Navy, Brazilian Air Force, Royal Jordanian Air Force, Algerian Air Force and the Finnish Air Force, Egyptian Air Force, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali Air Force, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines Air Force, Thailand, Vietnam, Kazakhstan Air Defence Force, Uzbekistan, Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. Of this total, 192 aircraft have been delivered and 190 are in operation. A further two aircraft were ordered in 2005, two in 2006 and two in 2007 to bring the fleet to 15.Ī total of 278 C-295 aircraft have been ordered by the customers worldwide. The aircraft entered service with the Spanish Air Force in November 2001 and delivery of the aircraft was completed in 2006. In 1999, the Spanish Ministry of Defence placed a contract for nine C-295M transport aircraft. The aircraft was granted INTA certification for military operations, and DGAG and FAA (FAR part 25) certification in 1999. Spain deployed two C295 tactical transport aircraft to deliver medical supplies to the Canary Islands to support the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in March 2020.ĬASA announced the aircraft in June 1997 at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget and the first production C-295 made its first flight in 1998. It is equipped with up to three additional fuel tanks, an operator’s console, and a hose drum unit with 100ft-long deployable hose.
The removable refuelling system of the aircraft weighs 1,500kg. Further, the first wet contacts of the aircraft were achieved during an AAR tanker flight test campaign in the same month of 2020. The system also underwent proximity tests with the C295 and the Spanish Air Force F-18 in January 2020. The C-295 aircraft can be configured to support multiple missions including VIP Transport, medical evacuation, military operations, air-to-air refuelling as well as civic and humanitarian missions.Īirbus developed a removable air-to-air refuelling (AAR) kit, which refuelled a C295 from the Spanish Air Force during flight tests.
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