Aero offers plane overhauls and upgrades for purchasers on varied continents. After two years of overhaul, three L-39ZA Albatros plane from Aero went to Nigeria, flying on their axis to their house base in Kano. This methodology of delivering the plane to the client is sort of distinctive and the flight was additionally difficult as a result of lengthy distance and troublesome climate circumstances. It took the Aero take a look at pilots – Vladimir Tovarkov, Vytautas Požel, and Radovan Cingel – 4 days to make the 5,000-kilometre journey from Vodochody to Kano, Nigeria, with every pilot spending 13 hours within the air. Stopovers have been made in Dijon (France), Valencia (Spain), Ghardaie (Algeria), Tamanrasset (Algeria) and Agadez (Niger). One of many direct contributors additionally commented aptly on the issue and unpredictability of the crossing. “The final leg of the journey to Kano Airport in Nigeria was marked by deteriorating climate, with the airport surrounded by thunderstorms and the touchdown itself happening in very heavy rain at nearly the final attainable second. Regardless of this inconvenience, we managed every little thing and efficiently handed over the plane to the client,” provides Vladimír Továrek, Aero Vodochody take a look at pilot.
“The usual is that the plane are delivered to the client in disassembled situation. As soon as reassembled, our pilots will arrive on website, conduct a apply sortie of the plane after which a handover flight with the client’s consultant. Flights on their very own axis are way more demanding organizationally, particularly when it comes to logistics and the necessities for coordination of particular person actions. Not solely is it needed to rearrange permission for navy plane to fly over the territory of all states, but in addition to offer further help, resembling escort plane with crew and mechanics, gas and oxygen provide in any respect stops, or to make sure the security of the crew throughout stopovers. All of this requires the proper synergy of all the workforce of consultants not solely from AERO but in addition from different exterior establishments, which on this case labored completely,” stated Vladan Resner, Regional Gross sales Director of AERO, chargeable for this undertaking.
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The Nigerian Military plane arrived within the Czech Republic in July 2020, when an Antonov An-124 transport plane picked them up from their house base in Kano and transported them to Pardubice Airport. Subsequently, overhaul and modernization work started on them on the Aero hangars. The Nigerian plane are newly outfitted with an EFIS system that digitally shows flight info on the cockpit and a heads-up show. With these enhancements, pilots can prepare in a totally digital cockpit earlier than they sit within the cockpit of the JF-17 fighter plane. Nigeria is the fifth international buyer lately to go for the overhaul and full modernization of older L-39 Albatros plane. Aero has additionally been working intently with these clients on the long run buy of the most recent L-39NG plane, which has efficiently handed the required certifications, and gross sales to different international locations are not hindered.
AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE a.s. focuses on the event, manufacturing, upkeep, and enchancment of civil and navy plane and is the biggest plane producer within the Czech Republic and one of many oldest plane producers on this planet. Within the discipline of personal plane, Aero is a everlasting accomplice of a variety of navy air forces and has a powerful place available in the market for navy coach and lightweight fight plane. With 11,000 plane produced in its 100 years of existence, lots of of L-39 Albatros plane nonetheless in service with dozens of navy operators and a variety of demo groups, and particularly with its new L-39NG plane, Aero has established itself as a frontrunner within the international jet coach market. Within the civil aviation sector, Aero works with main plane producers on a variety of initiatives and is a accomplice in a number of risk-sharing applications, the place it’s accountable not just for the manufacture and meeting of plane assemblies but in addition for his or her growth.
