22nd Airbus A400M Atlas delivered to the Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force has taken delivery of the 22nd Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft, completing the delivery development & production phase.
The Royal Air Force has taken delivery of the 22nd Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft, completing the delivery development & production phase.
With more than 100 aircraft in operation, the A400M has surpassed 150,000 flight hours serving nations worldwide, protecting people and performing new tasks with new capabilities.
Germany’s Bundeswehr, Airbus, the German Aerospace Center DLR, and German companies SFL and Geradts have jointly carried out the world’s first successful launch and operation of a Remote Carrier flight test demonstrator from a flying A400M.
A RAF Brize Norton based Atlas transport aircraft has conducted trials in Romania to rapidly deploy NATO weapons capabilities, using a Romanian military HIMARS weapons system.
With more than 2,000 flight hours, 1,000 flights and many missions and campaigns completed, the Airbus prototype returns to Bremen after nearly twelve years of pushing boundaries to develop A400M capabilities to its maximum.
As part of its commitment with the countries operating the A400M under the OCCAR, Airbus Defence and Space successfully completed a Crew Workload Assessment mission conducted in the UK.
The A400M programme team with the Military Air Systems unit of the Defence and Space division has kicked off its test flight campaign with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) this summer.
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