Super Tucano won the LAS programm!

[Fireman Sam]

Its official, Embraer just announced that the Super Tucano was chosen by the USAF for the LAS programm!

Love the Super Tucano, well done!

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/ ... r%20Fights has more information.

[Stefan]

FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET No. 1052-11
December 30, 2011
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CONTRACTS
AIR FORCE
Sierra Nevada Corp., Sparks, Nev., is being awarded a firm-fixed price
delivery order 0001 contract in the amount of $355,126,541 for the Light Air
Support (LAS) aircraft and associated support. The delivery order is being
issued under the simultaneously awarded basic contract FA8637-12-D-6001, an
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This is a
non-developmental aircraft procured for conducting advanced flight training,
surveillance, air interdiction, and close air support. The LAS aircraft is a
single-engine turboprop fixed-wing aircraft with tricycle, retractable landing
gear, and tandem two-place pressurized cockpit with ejection seats, capable of
operating from semi-prepared air fields. Ground training devices support
pilot training. Interim contractor support is required for all maintenance
and supply requirements for the aircraft and associated support equipment,
consisting of the following: 20 LAS aircraft; one lot interim contractor
support long lead in the continental United States; one lot interim
contractor support base activation outside the continental United States; six
mission planning stations; six mission debrief systems; one computer based
trainer ground training device; one flight training device ground training
device; one lot LAS flight certification to United States Air Force Military
Training Center standards. Locations of performance are Sparks, Nev. (55
percent), and Jacksonville, Fla. (45 percent). Delivery order 0001 is
expected to be completed Apr. 30, 2014. The basic contract has an ordering period
of 60 months. ASC/WWYAC, Wright-Patterson, Ohio, is the contracting
activity.
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Credit: DoD News Release.

[SquAdmin]

But Raetheon Beechcraft was suing USAF over this, right?

[SquAdmin]

Ah, there you have it: USAF issues Stop Work Order on A-29

Anyway, it will be called A-29. Hadn't read that before.

[Stefan]

Ah, there you have it: USAF issues Stop Work Order on A-29

Anyway, it will be called A-29. Hadn't read that before.

A-29 is the Brazilian type designation, but A-29 Super Tucano is now a regularly used international name for the a/c.

Regards,
Stefan

[SquAdmin]

Ok, but USAF apparently adapted it and thereby made a leap from A-13 till A-29 (or has the A-16 designation ever been official?)

[Stefan]

Ok, but USAF apparently adapted it and thereby made a leap from A-13 till A-29 (or has the A-16 designation ever been official?)

Unless I misread the article, I see no mention of A-29 being the USAF designation? Or did I overlook something?

Regards,
Stefan

[Richard from Rotterdam]

They mention it in the penultimate paragraph:

Sierra Nevada, based in Sparks, Nev., said it would build the A-29 Super Tucano in Jacksonville, Fla., using American employees along with parts and services from at least 70 U.S. suppliers in 21 states.

[Stefan]

They mention it in the penultimate paragraph:

Sierra Nevada, based in Sparks, Nev., said it would build the A-29 Super Tucano in Jacksonville, Fla., using American employees along with parts and services from at least 70 U.S. suppliers in 21 states.

Call me stubborn, but I think this is a reference to the Brazilian designation only. I'm not trying to win this, but it would be strange to call it 'USAF tri-service system' A-29, especially when there's a law-suit coming up.

Regards,
Stefan

[Polecat]

and when they won't operate them themselves....??

Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano is to be used for flight training, reconnaissance and light air support operations, the Air Force said. The U.S.-purchased aircraft will be used to train Afghan pilots and then given to Afghanistan to help that country take responsibility for its security as the United States phases out its operations there, officials said.

[SquAdmin]

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Embraer_EMB ... per_Tucano

In 2008 the U.S. Navy began testing the Super Tucano at the behest of the U.S. Special Operations Command for its potential use to support special warfare operations,[7] giving it the official U.S. designation A-29B.[8] The Super Tucano is being offered in a U.S. Air Force competition for 100 counterinsurgency aircraft in 2009.[9]

I don't know if this would also apply for USAF, but it might explain why the designation A-29 is used in articles about the LAS competition instead of EMB-314.

[Stefan]

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Embraer_EMB ... per_Tucano

In 2008 the U.S. Navy began testing the Super Tucano at the behest of the U.S. Special Operations Command for its potential use to support special warfare operations,[7] giving it the official U.S. designation A-29B.[8] The Super Tucano is being offered in a U.S. Air Force competition for 100 counterinsurgency aircraft in 2009.[9]

I don't know if this would also apply for USAF, but it might explain why the designation A-29 is used in articles about the LAS competition instead of EMB-314.

Good find!

Interesting link (for me at least) in the references:
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmi ... um%29.html

I'm with you now!

Regards,
Stefan

[Hurricane]

[A-29B] The U.S. Navy has leased an Embraer "Super Tucano" aircraft for evaluation, and the Braziliuan A-29B designation has been adopted as an official MDS designator.

As this is straight copied from the link from Stefan ... Nice move, RAF Tucano's end up in the US as warbirds! and these A-29's end up as EFT (elementry flight trainer)