Manufactured in September 1997
Service period: Year (1999 - 2016)
Specification
- Manufacturer: British Aerospace (Operation) Limited
- Maximum takeoff weight: 11,000 kg
- Maximum speed: 250 knots
- Maximum range: 1490 nm
- Fuel capacity: 2600 kg of Jet A-1, 6 hours with diversion fuel and 500 nm (900 Km) radius of action
- Engine model : Two Honeywell (Garrett) TPE331-14 turbo-prop engines with 1650 SHP
- McCauley propeller with 5-Blades
- Aircraft dimension:
- 63 ft 5 in (L) x 18 ft 5 in (H)
- 60 ft 5.3 in (Wing span), 21 ft 11 in (Horizontal stabilizer span)
- 8- Seats configuration of this aircraft in the cabin including one forward observer seat, two double passenger seats, one single passenger seat, one console operator seat and one rear observer seat.
- Multi-mission surveillance airplane with main baggage bulkhead door
Mission and Equipment
- Search and rescue (SAR)
- Flare launching system for deployment smoke location markers and datum marker buoy
- Video data downlink system for real-time image transfer
- 360 degree search radar and forward looking infrared (FLIR) detection system
- Medical evacuation
- Convert police patrols for detecting smuggling, illegal immigrants and drug trafficking.
- Aerial survey (Supporting Lands Department)
- High quality aerial survey camera with data from GPS to provide photographs for the production of maps, survey of land reclamation and associated tasks.
- Meteorological measurement (Supporting Hong Kong Observatory)
- AIMMS-20 air data system to provide real-time data for meteorological analysts