Brazil's Embraer is one of the few countries that manufacture military transport aircraft and now the new Embraer C-390 Millennium multi-mission transport has made another sale to an undisclosed country. The medium-sized military transport is proving a competitor with Lockheed's Super Hercules on the export market. Earlier in December 2024, Simple Flying reported that Embraer is working with the Brazilian military to make a variant of the C-390 for maritime patrol ISR missions .
New mystery buyer for Embraer's new C-390 In a press release , Embraer has revealed that another country has placed an order for two C-390 military transports (the contract includes " a comprehensive training and support package as well as the supply of spare parts. " Embraer stated, " The aircraft will be specially configured to meet customers’ requirements, which include tactical transport of troops and vehicles, humanitarian aid, disaster management and medical evacuation ." While the identity of the country is unknown, it seems to be a new customer that hadn't previously ordered the aircraft as Embraer wrote, " the new customer is the tenth nation to select the C-390.
.." The other nine countries that have ordered the transport are Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, South Korea, the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Slovakia.
Sweden was previously the newest country to have selected the C-390, ordering it in November 2024. More than 42 C-390s have been ordered so far. It is unclear wha.
