Power on for Portugal’s first KC-390

Embraer is making good progress with manufacture of the first Força Aérea Portuguesa (FAP, Portuguese Air Force) KC-390 Millennium. The FAP announced on September 26 that the aircraft had achieved ‘power on’ for the first time at Embraer's factory in Gavião Peixoto, Brazil, on September 21. The achievement was closely monitored by the FAP KC-390 programme’s Missão de Acompanhamento e Fiscalização (MAF – Monitoring and Inspection Mission), a multidisciplinary team of Portuguese military personnel, composed of FAP crew, engineers and