24th Oct 2014 06:16
LONDON (Alliance News) - Cobham PLC Friday said it had won a AUD640 million contract to provide airborne search and rescue services to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The deal runs for 12 years from 2016, and it will start modifying and mobilising aircraft later this year. It said the deal price includes estimated flying charges, and could rise to over AUD700 million if three additional optional years are exercised by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The authority uses aircraft based in strategic locations across Australia to perform search and rescue tasks such as searching for missing people, locating activated distress beacons, providing communications support at an incident and dropping survival equipment to people in distress.
Cobham will acquire, modify, commission and then operate and maintain four Bombardier Challenger CL-604 special mission jet aircraft to provide a search and rescue capability over land and at sea. Much of the modification work will be undertaken at Cobham's facilities in Adelaide, South Australia.
The aircraft will be based in Cairns, Melbourne and Perth. Cobham will employ five-member air crews, including a Captain, First Officer, Visual Search Officer, Electronic Search Observer and Aircraft Mission Coordinator who will be on permanent standby
By Steve McGrath; [email protected]; @stevemcgrath1
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