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Aviation History
1981
1981 - 1605.PDF
INDUSTRY International ABU DHABI brings Casa C.212 Aviocar sales to 260 with its purchase of four units for the United Arab Emirates Air Force; production con tinues apace at factories in Spain and Indonesia. Fuselages are made at Casa's Getafe, Madrid, facility. They travel to San Pablo, Seville, where they are mated with the wings —built at nearby Tablada—and the twin Garrett TPE331 turboprops. Fit ting out is normally done at Seville, but American Casa lays out US air craft when they arrive. A variety of Casa C.212 production update RICHARD WHITAKER reports from Seville configurations is possible: cargo, cor porate, commuter (26 passengers at 2812in pitch, for example), casualty evacuation, survey, parachuting or navigator training. The roles are inter changeable, and the rear-fuselage ramp aids loading and role^ohanging. Four C.212s a month are built in Spain, with Nurtaniio licence-building two a month at Bandung, Indonesia. Local content of these aircraft has increased to 70 per cent, and the whole airframe should be Nurtanio- built by next year. The Indonesians have delivered around 33 C.212s, and they have options covering their first 100 units. Casa employs 2,500' in the Seville factories, and non-C.2,12 activities in clude manufacture of C.10Q. Aviojet fuselages, pant of the Mirage F.l centre fuselage, Boeing 727 rear air- Left and above Casa's C.212 line at Seville houses eight fuselages, which progress through the building as wings, engines and other fitments are added. Below C.212 number 181 awaits its delivery flight to American Casa, where it will be fitted out prior to delivery. Two IbSgal ferry tanks in the cabin confer an endurance of lOhr stairs and DC-101 undercarriage doors. San Pablo is also a maintenance centre for C.212s, and Spanish Air Force T-33s and Navy AV-8B Mata dors. The radio shop is licensed to deal with Sperry, Collins, King and Bendix radio/navigation equipment. The future Casa has no further plans for changes to the C.212, preferring to concentrate on developing the CN.235 commuterliner with Nurtanio (see Flight last week, page 1530). Nurtanio is busily expanding its operation; it has increased employment from 800 to 3,400 since formation in 1976. The Indonesian company is building a new factory 12 times larger than its present building. The new 163,000m2 facility will be in service by early 1983, and it will provide the base for the com pany's ambitious expansion policy, The aim is for 10,000 employees by 1990. Indonesian Government policy is to expand the aviation industry because of the jobs created and the technology imported. Nurtanio has delivered 32 licenoe-built Bolkow BO105s and its first Aerospatiale Super Puma, as well as the C.212s. It is taking a 50 per cent share in CN.235 development and production. This will give the country consider able design and test capabilities as well as further construction experi ence, and the next step is seen as an in-house design—perhaps of a turbo prop trainer. Among the facilities being installed at Bandung are wind 'tunnels, fatigue^test equipment, bond ing facilities for both C.212 and CN.235, and numerically controlled machine tools.
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