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Sixteen Greek nationals, a Cypriot, nine Romanians and 8 Finns have landed on board a Hellenic Air Force transport aircraft at Tanagra air base following their evacuation from Sudan via Jordan and Djibouti.

The C-27J Spartan transport carrier, which landed shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, contained several children.

The versatile C-27J cargo aircraft will be able to perform this mission thanks to the roll-on/roll off MAFFS system

Rome – Defence Minister Matej Tonin signed an agreement on the purchase of a Spartan C-27J transport aircraft with his Italian counterpart Lorenzo Guerini in Rome on Wednesday.

Romanian servicemen have carried out, in the last three days, nine forest fire-fighting missions that affected North Macedonia, with a Romanian Air Force's C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft. "The C-27 J Spartan aircraft is accompanied in North Macedonia by a C-130 Hercules tactical airlift aircraft," reads a post on the Facebook page of the Ministry of National Defense (MApN).

The two patients at the Floreasca Hospital, seriously injured in the Petromidia explosion, were transported to Germany on Monday, by a military aircraft, informs the Ministry of National Defence (MApN).

A C-27J Spartan airship of the Romanian Air Force took off at 9.00 a.m. on Saturday from Otopeni Air Base 90, heading for Spain, transporting 90,000 FFP-type protection masks, the Ministry of National Defence reported.

Romania will be hosting next month a military exercise European Spartan 2019 designed as joint training for C-27J Spartan military aircraft pilots, the Romanian Defence Ministry (MApN) said Thursday in a press statement.

Ceremonies in memory of Commodore Ion Staiculescu, who died on Saturday in France, will be held on Monday morning in all the military units countrywide, informs the National Defence Ministry (MApN).

A detachment of the Romanian Air Forces, made of 22 soldiers, pilots, technical and engineering staff and specialists in planning, with a transport aircraft C-27J Spartan belonging to the 90th Airlift Base will participate, between June 15 to 26, in the multinational exercise "European Air Transport Training 15", in Portugal, under the coordination of EDA (European Defence Agency) and the EATC

A C-27J Spartan military aircraft carrying ten injured Ukrainian soldiers aboard will land this afternoon at the 90th Air Transportation Base, the Romanian Defence Ministry's (MApN) Press Office reports.

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