The Spanish Air Force Ejército del Aire stationed in San Javier, Murcia, receives its first PC-21. The Swiss aircraft manufacturer will deliver a total of 24 examples of this type of aircraft to Spain by June 2022.

Last year, Pilatus won the tender. Yesterday - around a year later - the first two PC-21s were handed over in San Javier. “We are very pleased that we can integrate such an advanced training system. The PC-21 will not only revolutionize our pilot training and take it to a whole new level, it will also enable us to reduce the costs of our pilot training ”, says León-Antonio Machés, Deputy Director General for Procurement Programs at the Ministerio de Defensa de España (DGAM ) on the occasion of delivery. The Air Force will start its first pilot training in September 2022.