CONTROLS:
AG1:
AG2:
AG3:
AG4: drop tanks
AG5: Navigation lights
AG6: Active Missiles
AG7: drop pods of rockets
AG8: open/close canopy

HISTORY:

In August 2001, Embraer announced the signing of a contract with the Dominican Republic for 10 Super Tucano aircraft, to use for pilot training, internal security, border patrol and counter-narcotics trafficking missions.

The order was reduced to eight aircraft in January 2009, for a total amount of US$93 million.

 The first two Super Tucano aircraft were delivered to the Dominican Republic on 18 December 2009, three were delivered in June 2010, and the remaining three in October 2010.

In February 2011, Dominican Republic Air Force Chief of Operations Col. Hilton Cabral stated: "since the introduction of the Super Tucano aircraft and ground-based radars, illicit air tracks into the Dominican Republic had dropped by over 80 percent."

In August 2011, the Dominican Air Force said that since taking delivery of the Super Tucanos in 2009, it has driven away drug flights to the point that they no longer enter the country's airspace.

In May 2012, the Dominican president Leonel Fernández gave a cooperative order for the armed forces to support a fleet of Super Tucanos for the antidrug fight on Haiti.

More Aircraft:
Super Tucano FAC

Súper Tucano FACh

Photos by: Bife

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