Textron Aviation has launched that the Cessna SkyCourier twin utility turboprop has been awarded form certification by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).
The first SkyCourier within the location – a 19-seat passenger variant – is planned to be delivered within the 2d half of 2025 to Main Edge Air Companies Company (LEASCOR), a wholly owned subsidiary of ACDI Multipurpose Cooperative within the Philippines.
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The Cessna SkyCourier is designed to meet the needs of air freight, passenger and special-mission operations, and can fair furthermore be operated by a single pilot. The aircraft can easily adjust configurations and furthermore has capabilities to toughen a broad quantity of operational actions in remote areas.
ACDI Multipurpose Cooperative serves contributors of the total Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and other uniformed personnel. People consist of active provider personnel, retirees, reservists, civilian workers of the AFP and other uniformed personnel and dependents. LEASCOR became as soon as established in 2016 because the air chartering arm of the Cooperative.
“We are angry to join underserved communities within the Philippines with the sleek 19-seat SkyCourier turboprop, that can also fair complement our contemporary rapid,” talked about Foremost General Gilbert S. Llanto, ACDI MPC Chairman. “It can maybe with no doubt enhance our enterprise lines in tourism, agriculture and food, aviation, mobility and the constructing alternate one day of the archipelago.”
Textron Aviation presents the Cessna SkyCourier twin-engine, excessive-flit turboprop in both Freighter and Passenger variants, as smartly as with a Combi configuration or gravel kit for optimum flexibility. The 19-passenger variant entails crew and passenger doors for tender boarding. Both configurations offer single-point tension refuelling. The Freighter variant is sized to handle up to three LD3 transport containers with 6,000lbs of payload potential.
