Ministry approves first C295MW aircraft

The Ministry of Defence (MinDef) signed the certificates of buyer acceptance check for the primary C295MW plane beneath the air transport venture with Main (U) Arif Shamirul bin Salleh, Royal Brunei Air Power (RBAirF), as Head of Resident Venture Workplace for the venture, signing on behalf of MinDef and Programme Supervisor Pablo Alvaro Ramos Ruiz representing Airbus Defence and House SAU, Spain.

The plane key was offered to Commander of the RBAirF Brigadier Common (U) Dato Seri Pahlawan Mohd Sharif bin Dato Paduka Haji Ibrahim to mark the milestone.

Minister on the Prime Minister’s Workplace and Minister of Defence II Pehin Datu Lailaraja Main Common (Rtd) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Awang Halbi bin Haji Mohd Yussof and Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces Main Common Dato Paduka Seri Haji Muhammad Haszaimi bin Bol Hassan and RBAirF acceptance staff members witnessed the ceremony on the Airbus Defence and House San Pablo, Seville, Spain.

The shopper acceptance check is a part of the acceptance necessities to be carried out earlier than the plane is flown to Brunei for supply in January 2024.

Upon arrival within the Sultanate, a website acceptance check will likely be carried out and the plane’s title will likely be transferred to the MinDef.

The signing was the primary out of two within the close to future, with the second plane to endure its buyer acceptance check in Seville in January 2024. Each plane are scheduled to be flown and delivered collectively to Brunei in January 2024.

The air transport venture contract was signed between the MinDef on behalf of the Authorities of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam and Airbus Defence and House SAU on December 2, 2022 for the supply of 4 C295MW Air Transport fleet.

That is to interchange the ageing CN235-110M plane of the RBAirF, carry out missions together with Humanitarian Help and Catastrophe Reduction (HADR) operations, MEDEVAC (Medical Evacuations), NEO (Non-combatant Evacuation Operations) and SAR (Search and Rescue operations).

The plane can also be configurable to carry out varied roles similar to troop and cargo transport, VIP transport, freefall, airborne static jumps and cargo drops.