An Italian Air Force’s C-27J tactical transport aircraft has been deployed to Cebu Island in the Philippines, in support of international aid activities for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The aircraft is engaged in transporting disaster relief material, equipment and...
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An Italian Air Force’s C-27J tactical transport aircraft has been deployed to Cebu Island in the Philippines, in support of international aid activities for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
The aircraft is engaged in transporting disaster relief material, equipment and emergency support personnel in Tacloban, Leyte and in Eastern Samar, the areas hardest hit by the typhoon that struck the Philippines in mid November.
The C-27J arrived on November 30, and immediately began transporting food, camp tents, medical equipment, water purifiers and “pillow tanks”, which are inflatable reservoirs of 5000 litres capacity each. These missions effectively reinforce the characteristics of the C-27J: a large cabin capable of loading bulky and particularly heavy vehicles and pallets, capability to land and take off from/on unprepared or particularly short or damaged runways such as those in the region struck by the typhoon, and on-board availability of an APU (Auxiliary Power Unit), which allows the aircraft total operational autonomy to use the aircraft systems on ground and to start the engines with no need of ground power generation systems. This last point is key for an aircraft aimed at operating in disaster relief missions in remote areas, where there is no availability of ground equipment normally found at civil or military airports.
The C-27J can perform a variety of missions including transport of troops, goods and medicine, logistical re-supply, MEDEVAC, airdrop operations, paratroopers’ launches, search and rescue (SAR), fire fighting, humanitarian assistance, and operations in support of homeland security.
The C-27J has been ordered by the Air Forces of Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Morocco, the US, Mexico, Australia, an undisclosed African country and Peru, for a total of 76 airplanes.
