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The company Airbus reported that it has reached 100 deliveries of the A400M with the aircraft MSN111, the tenth A400M of the Spanish Air Force.
The aircraft made its ferry flight on 24 May from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based, in the same week, the global fleet Airbus A400M also reached the milestone of 100.000 flight hours carrying out missions around the world for the eight countries that are clients.
All A400M operators have been able to operate the aircraft intensively for emergency response missions Covid-19 in medevac operations, as well as carry out joint and collaborative operations.
new capabilities
Recently, The A400M successfully carried out an important helicopter flight refueling certification flight test campaign in coordination with the DGA (General Directorate of Armaments of France), completing most of your certification goals, including the first simultaneous refueling of two helicopters.
The A400M is now capable of dropping up to 116 skydivers, via simultaneous dispatch from the side doors with automatic parachute opening, or from the ramp with automatic parachute opening or in free fall, day and night. Recent tests were completed in Spain, in collaboration with the Royal Air Force Parachute Test Team United Kingdom, to expand to 25,000 pies (7,600 meters) for automatic parachute opening, And till 38,000 pies (11,582 meters) for free fall.
The A400M also completed additional testing to expand its cargo delivery capability., including multiple platforms with parachute extraction (23 tons), France and Spain participated in these flights.
It also achieved a decisive new milestone following certification flights of its low-level automatic flight capability for instrument meteorological conditions. (IMC). The use of navigation systems and databases in the field, without the need for terrain following radar, It is a novelty for an airplane military transport. This makes the aircraft less detectable in hostile areas and less susceptible to threats while conducting operations in hostile environments..
Medical evacuation missions
The 2020 and 2021 also saw the use of the A400M in civil emergency response roles during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, especially for civil medical evacuation tasks (medevac), with Airbus providing critical support for air force operators, as well as for the transportation of medical supplies. The aircraft's versatility also allowed for rapid conversion to medical evacuation configuration, where critical care modules installed provided airborne intensive care units.
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