By NIGEL PITTAWAY
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — The head of Australia’s New Airlift Project Office revealed the maiden flight of Australia’s first C-27J Spartan tactical airlifter will occur in Italy in mid-November, two months ahead of schedule.
Australia is buying 10 C-27Js under Project AIR 8000 Phase 2 via a Foreign Military Sales agreement with the United Sates. L-3 Communications is the prime contractor and the first Spartan is due to be handed over at L-3s facility in Waco, Texas, in the second half of next year.
Group Capt. Warren Bishop, who heads New Airlift Project Office, also said the project was on time and on budget, despite the United States Air Force divesting itself of its C-27J fleet.
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