Photos: the 1st flight of the 1st Australian C-27J last week

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Surprisingly not mentioned already on this forum:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ne-394316/

12:46 19 Dec 2013

PICTURES: Australia's first C-27J gets airborne

The Finmeccanica company on 19 December announced that the Royal Australian Air Force’s first of 10 C-27Js had performed a debut flight from its Caselle airport site in Turin, Italy.

Sporting air force colours and the service registration A34-001, Canberra’s lead aircraft is part of a project Air 8000 Phase 2 effort to replace Australia’s retired de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou light airlifters.

All 10 Australian aircraft are due to be delivered before the end of 2015.