Articles By: Alenia Aeronautica
Final C-27Js Aircraft Delivered to the Italian Air Force
Today, at its Caselle South facility, Alenia Aeronautica completed deliveries to the Italian Air Force (AMI) with the delivery of the twelfth C-27J. The aircraft was delivered to the 46th Air Wing based in Pisa. Today’s ceremony completes the deliveries of aircraft that began in January 2007. The AMI C-27Js include an advanced and sophisticated [...]
M-346 Master Trainer Makes First Flight
The 60-minute flight was made by the two prototypes and LRIP00, representative of the series production configuration, while the M-311 aircraft acted as camera ship. Alenia Aermacchi is proceeding with the last M-346 development activities and is fitting out the new hangar dedicated to the automated build-up and structural assembly lines for series production at [...]
First ASTA Simulator for the Eurofighter Becomes Operational
GIOIA DEL COLLE, Italy: Today at the Gioia del Colle Italian Air Force Base, the first ASTA (Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids) – full Mission Simulator for the Eurofighter Typhoon, has been inaugurated. The Typhoon is the strongest European technological and industrial success in the field of new-generation air-superiority aircraft. The Eurofighter Typhoon currently in service [...]
Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon Logs 10k Flight Hours
Alenia Aeronautica records with great satisfaction another important result reached by the Eurofighter programme in Italy: the Air Force’s pilots have surpassed 10,000 flight hours on the Eurofighter Typhoon, the new-generation defence aircraft in service with two squadrons in Italy. The aircraft, that operates in Italy from Grosseto and Gioia del Colle air bases, has [...]


