EADS CASA RELIABILITY: CANADA’S SKYHAWKS USE A C212 TO SHOWCASE THEIR PARACHUTING SKILLS
June 23, 2008
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EADS CASA’s C212 had an important supporting role in this month’s Québec Air Show and Borden Canadian Forces Day, providing the airborne jump platform for the Canadian Forces’ SkyHawks parachute team.
The SkyHawks are a sub-unit of the Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare Centre located in Trenton, Ontario. During the team’s 37-year history, the SkyHawks have performed to an estimated 70 million spectators under its signature Canadian flag parachutes.
In Québec City and at the Canadian Forces Base Borden show, the SkyHawks jumped from a C212-200 operated by U.S.-based Fayard Enterprises Inc., demonstrating the parachute team’s precision landing techniques.
The rugged C212 is the cornerstone of EADS CASA’s tactical airlifter product line, and it is used for applications that range from U.S. Special Forces training and airlift duties in Afghanistan to maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare service around the world.
The experience gained in more than 30 years of C212 operations has been engineered into the larger C295 and CN235, ensuring reliability and mission capability that are benchmarks for EADS CASA aircraft.
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