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Jordan Aerospace Industries (JAI) won a contract through its partner, TransAtlantic Traders (TAT), to build 16 surveillance aircraft for the new Iraqi Air Force.
The $12 million contract to build 16 Sama CH2000 surveillance planes was announced Oct. 2 in a JAI statement.
“JAI competed with several U.S. and European manufacturers to win this comprehensive program that includes supplying the Iraqi Air Force through the U.S. Army with the aircraft, as well as pilot and mechanics training, spare parts and long-term logistical support,†Muayad Al-Samaraee, JAI president and chief executive, said in the statement.
Among the competing companies that lost to JAI was another Jordanian company, Seabird Aviation Jordan, which sold two surveillance aircraft to the Iraqi Air Force earlier in the year.
The Sama aircraft is equipped with a forward-looking infrared radar system — a multisensor system offering precision, high-level imaging — and with state-of-the-art Harris communication systems for continuous, secure air and land communications using various bandwidths, according to the company communiqué.
Training for the Iraqi pilots will be conducted in cooperation with the Jordan-based Mideast Aviation Academy and the Royal Aero Club, Amman, the statement said.
According to JAI’s Web site, the Sama-CH2000 is a two-seat light aircraft certified in the normal and utility categories by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Transport Canada, and is certified in all European countries as well as Jordan.
San Francisco-based TAT, with a regional office in Jordan, is an import-export company that has supplied the U.S. forces in Iraq with civil defense equipment along with other items.
“This deal is an important step in positioning Jordan and JAI in meeting the region’s aviation sector requirements,†said Feras Mash, TAT’s president.
JAI manufactures the Sama CH2000 in partnership with the plane’s designer, Zenair Ltd., Midland, Ontario, Canada.
In August, Seabird Aviation Jordan delivered to the Iraqi Air Force two SB7L-360 Seeker aircraft. The two-seat surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, according to a company statement, were immediately put into service flying missions over oil pipelines, power lines, roads and other important Iraqi infrastructure.
Seabird Aviation Jordan, Amman, is a joint venture company between the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau of Jordan and Seabird Aviation, Queensland, Australia, set up in July 2003.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=386173&C=mideast
The $12 million contract to build 16 Sama CH2000 surveillance planes was announced Oct. 2 in a JAI statement.
“JAI competed with several U.S. and European manufacturers to win this comprehensive program that includes supplying the Iraqi Air Force through the U.S. Army with the aircraft, as well as pilot and mechanics training, spare parts and long-term logistical support,†Muayad Al-Samaraee, JAI president and chief executive, said in the statement.
Among the competing companies that lost to JAI was another Jordanian company, Seabird Aviation Jordan, which sold two surveillance aircraft to the Iraqi Air Force earlier in the year.
The Sama aircraft is equipped with a forward-looking infrared radar system — a multisensor system offering precision, high-level imaging — and with state-of-the-art Harris communication systems for continuous, secure air and land communications using various bandwidths, according to the company communiqué.
Training for the Iraqi pilots will be conducted in cooperation with the Jordan-based Mideast Aviation Academy and the Royal Aero Club, Amman, the statement said.
According to JAI’s Web site, the Sama-CH2000 is a two-seat light aircraft certified in the normal and utility categories by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Transport Canada, and is certified in all European countries as well as Jordan.
San Francisco-based TAT, with a regional office in Jordan, is an import-export company that has supplied the U.S. forces in Iraq with civil defense equipment along with other items.
“This deal is an important step in positioning Jordan and JAI in meeting the region’s aviation sector requirements,†said Feras Mash, TAT’s president.
JAI manufactures the Sama CH2000 in partnership with the plane’s designer, Zenair Ltd., Midland, Ontario, Canada.
In August, Seabird Aviation Jordan delivered to the Iraqi Air Force two SB7L-360 Seeker aircraft. The two-seat surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, according to a company statement, were immediately put into service flying missions over oil pipelines, power lines, roads and other important Iraqi infrastructure.
Seabird Aviation Jordan, Amman, is a joint venture company between the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau of Jordan and Seabird Aviation, Queensland, Australia, set up in July 2003.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=386173&C=mideast