TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that Vietnam is interested in buying the CN-295 aircrafts produced by state-owned aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia.
CN-295 is a military aircraft that could be used as a civilian commuter aircraft in the latest inventory list of PT Dirgantara Indonesia.
Air Force already has a line of CN-295 (C-295 according to the nomenclature given Airbus Military as a manufacturer of origin / licensees), which is incorporated into the Air Squadron 2, stationed at the Main Air Base Halim Perdanakusuma in Jakarta.
Turboprop aircraft production license held by Airbus Military is said to be of the same class with A-27 Spartan-made Alenia, Italy.
"Earlier we talked about the plan of the purchase of CN-295," said Kalla, after a bilateral meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Trinh Dinh Dung on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in 2016, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday (2/6).
However, Kalla did not explain technically on the aircraft purchase plan, including the number of units to be purchased.
Countries that have ordered the CN-235 include South Korea and Brunei Darussalam.
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