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Philippines to receive US Cessna aircraft with ISR capability
MELBOURNE, Australia — Two Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft purchased by the U.S. Department of Defense and modified to perform airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks will be handed over to the Philippine military on July 27.
In making the announcement, Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana also said the aircraft will be used to conduct patrols off the waters surrounding the country.
The aircraft have already arrived in the Philippines, with a photo released by the Philippine Air Force of a Tuesday awards ceremony held at Villamor Air Base in Manila showing two gray Cessna 208B turboprops on the tarmac among an assortment of other Philippine Air Force aircraft.
The two aircraft were procured in early May 2016 under separate DoD contracts funded under section 2282 of the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act and the Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund for the capacity-building of foreign military, maritime or border security forces to conduct counterterrorism or other operations that benefit the national security interests of the United States.
Other photos seen by Defense News of the Cessna 208Bs at the base showed that one of them is carrying the U.S. civil registration N320ZZ, which U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records indicate is one of six similar aircraft registered by the U.S. Air Force’s Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, who is the contracting authority for the program.
The FAA records for this aircraft, along with another bearing the registration N322ZZ, have been amended in late June stating that they have been installed with an FAA-approved temporary extended-range fuel system designed by Weaver Aero International, which perhaps indicates that they were being prepared for delivery at the time.
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The FAA register gives the following information:
N320ZZ, c/n 208B-5320 (reg'd 01 nov 2016 to USAF/AFMC/AFLCMC, DAYTON, Ohio and still active; airworthiness date 20 sep 2016; year of man 2016), additional info 29 jun 2017: INSTALLED TEMPORARY EXTENDED RANGE FUEL SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAA APPROVED WEAVER AERO INTERNATIONAL DRAWING WAI-208/208B. SEE ATTACHED WEIGHT AND BALANCE FOR TEMPORARY WEIGHT AND BALANCE DATA. THE TEMPORARY WEIGHT AND BALANCE DATA WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE DURATION OF THE SPECIAL FLIGHT PERMIT OR UNTIL THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED RANGE FUEL SYSTEM IS REMOVED. REMOVAL OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED RANGE FUEL SYSTEM WILL RETURN THE AIRCRAFT TO ITS ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION.
N322ZZ, c/n 208B-5322 (reg'd 01 nov 2016 to USAF/AFMC/AFLCMC, DAYTON, Ohio and still active; airworthiness date 26 sep 2016; year of man 2016)
