C295 Heads for New Role

EADS CASA says that it plans to modify a prototype C295 for trials in late September as a firefighting aircraft. The aircraft will use a tank system fitted in the main cargo hold that would drop water through openings cut into the belly of the aircraft. The news comes just a week after the company...

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