Brazil’s Embraer announced on 27 December 2024 that it had signed a contract that day for the sale of two C-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft, but declined to name the customer.
The company did note that the new customer “is the tenth nation to select the C-390 after Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, South Korea, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Slovakia”.
It is possible that the customer is the Royal Moroccan Air Force, which has a requirement to replace its fleet of 14 C-130H transports, which first entered service in 1974, and also operates two KC-130H tankers, which entered service from 1982.
Embraer said of its latest C-390 order that the contract “includes a comprehensive training and support package as well as the supply of spare parts”, adding that the aircraft “will be specially configured to meet customers’ requirements, which include tactical transport of troops and vehicles, humanitarian aid, disaster management and medical evacuation”.
