Brazilian KC390 Millennium visit at Eindhoven Air Base

Redskin301

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On Saturday September 10th 2022, an Embraer KC-390 landed at Eindhoven AB (ICAO EHEH) in the Netherlands. This Embraer KC-390 company demonstrator is traveling in Europe and this time it is staying a few days in the Netherlands. The Royal Dutch Air Force (“Koninklijke Luchtmacht”) is currently flying 4 Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft and the Embraer C-390M is the anticipated replacement of the Hercules, with 5 aircraft. The Netherlands is the 3rd European country to select the Embraer C-390, following Portugal and Hungary. For the Netherlands, the C-390 ‘Millennium’ will not be the KC-390 for air-air-refueling, as there is a large Airbus A330-MRTT fleet based at Eindhoven AB. The C-390 will be used solely as transport aircraft.

 

ngatimozart

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I quite like the C-390 and in a lot of ways I think it would have been a good fit for the RNZAF. However it was, rightly, seen as being to risky by both NZ MOD and NZ Govt. This is because it's not in use with any of the FVEY nations nor other friends of ours. If Boeing had remained as the global partner and servicing partner then NZ might have been more interested.
 

Redskin301

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Well in Europe the plane is getting off the ground now as Portugal and Hungaria bought it already and the Netherlands and Finland as potential buyers. The Netherlands will also get a big maintenance facility for the type together with the civilian E models at KLM etc.
 
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