The Presidency has announced on Thursday that six of the 12 Super Tucano fighter aircraft earlier ordered by the Federal Government will arrive in the country by July 2021.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday.
The statement read: “Six of the twelve Super Tucanos are on track to arrive in mid-July 2021. With the remaining six shortly after that. There are 14 Nigerian pilots currently training at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.
“The Super Tucanos came off the production line in Jacksonville Florida and are now being equipped and flight tested. Nigerian pilots and maintenance personnel are training on these planes. Currently, the construction is ongoing, which will house the aircraft.
“The Air-Ground-Integration school is the training hub on targeting and minimization of civilian casualties.”
Okay.ng recalls that FG placed an order for 12 Super Tucano aircraft at a cost of $496million in February, 2018.
