Alenia Aermacchi delivers the first two MB-339CMs to RMAF

Alenia Aermacchi delivers the first two MB-339CMs to the Royal Malaysian Air Force.Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, has delivered to the Royal Malaysian Air Force its first two MB-339CM trainers.

These two aircraft are part of an order for eight trainers placed by the RMAF in late 2006.Chief Test Pilot Cdr. Quirino Bucci and Test Pilot Cdr. Matteo Maurizio took off from the Alenia Aermacchi airfield in two MB-339CMs and landed at the RMAF base at Kuantan after a 12,000-kilometre delivery flight.

The six remaining MB-339CM are expected to be delivered in the course of 2009.

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