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MC-29 Courier passing over Alacrity Glacier enroute to an Arctic research station.

The MC-29 Courier, developed by the Imperial Fuzavir Aircraft Company (IFAC), is a twin-engined transport aircraft that first flew in 1942. Introduced into service with the Fuzavir Air Force in 1943, the aircraft saw extensive service during the 1937-1947 Second Global War, with 8,900 built in total. In 1964 the Fuzavir Civil War broke out 300 Couriers remained in FAF service, and were used to carry out numerous paradrops in attempts to suppress the rebellions, but these were ultimately unsuccessful.
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The war ended in 1970, by which time the obsolete and war-wary aircraft were rapidly being withdrawn. The last Fuzavir MC-29 Courier was scrapped in 1976.

An MC-29 Courier flies through stormy weather on a flight back to Hamalian Field.

A batch of roughly 40 Couriers was exported to the Republic of Hamalia in 1952, which kept its Couriers in service until 2010 as transports and as light gunships. Most of the 26 surviving aircraft were scrapped, but 13 were dumped onto the commercial market, where they were quickly snapped up by antique aircraft enthusiasts and restoration companies.

A Herculean Air Services MC-29 Courier loads up under unusually dry conditions at Hamalian Field before a charter flight into the Arctic regions.

In 2028, shortly before the break-up of the Republic of Hamalia, John Buckland, an entrepreneur from Snowstone, bought up ten of the ex-Hamalian MC-29 Couriers from their many operators and founded Herculean Air Services. The HAS continues to operate nine of the Couriers to this day, with one being written off in a crash in 2030.

A Courier of HAS runs up its engines before taking off from an ice runway near an outpost in the Northern Oilfields

The Herculean Air Services provides specialist arctic transport on a contractual basis, and serves the oilfields on Snowstone Island and in the Far North, with bases in Snowstone (Western Glacier Outpost) and East Hamalia (Hamalian Field). The HAS operates nine MC-29 Couriers and five Airspeed Ambassadors in its fleet, as well as three Grob Tutor basic trainers for liaison work and experience flights. Six of the Couriers service the East Hamalian-Northern Oilfields route and the other three serve on Snowstone Island. The HAS aircraft have been modified to drop three supply containers from under the fuselage.

A Courier undergoes routine maintenance at Hamalian Field.

In January 2032 one of the Couriers returning from a charter flight to Snowstone overran the runway at Hamalian Field, coming to rest on an embankment with the main landing gear collapsed. The aircraft returned to service four months later.

A recently painted Courier performs a steep climb-out from the Western Glacier Outpost ice runway.

Eight other Couriers remain airworthy, with two operated by an aerial survey company in Brightneau, alongside two Airspeed Ambassadors, and three in Bulbasaur as desert transports. Two others operate in the Conegsreich Republic as part of a historic aircraft collection and another has found its way to SimpleLandia, where it regularly appears in airshows. That particular aircraft was also used to provide emergency aid relief in the aftermath of the Brightneau 2032 Tsunami.

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