Intercept planes ready to join Dominican Republic’s war on drugs
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Santo Domingo.- The first two Super Tucano airplanes, of eight bought by the Government in Brazil, are ready for their flight to the Dominican Republic.
The intercept planes will be immediately deployed in the war on drug trafficking, once concluded the test and training process of the personnel who’ll operate them.
An Armed Forces source said the company Embraer, manufacturer of the popular craft, formally informed the authorities that “the trial flights of the first two A-29 Super Tucano have concluded and are ready for transfer to Santo Domingo, as the delivery agreement signed with Brazil stipulates, scheduled for the beginning of November.”
“We are only awaiting the corresponding procedures and some authorizations on the components of the final user,” the source said Wednesday night.
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Thu, Nov 5, 2009
Aviation, drugs