SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, June 21 (UPI) -- Brazil's Embraer Defense and Security has picked a French company to provide environmental and cabin pressure control systems for KC-390 transports.
The systems will be developed and manufactured by Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS.
"Liebherr-Aerospace has the best solution in latest-generation environmental and cabin pressure control systems, which was chosen to provide greater operational efficiency for Embraer's KC-390," said Eduardo Bonini Santos Pinto, Embraer senior vice president of operations and chief operating officer.
"This new defense and security partnership further expands the long-standing relationship between Embraer and Liebherr-Aerospace."
Liebherr-Aerospace said the system to be provided will feature integrated control architecture with high-reliability, high-performance, light-weight pneumatic and mechanical components.
"Embraer's selection of our environmental and cabin pressure control systems will provide crew and troops with the most advanced air management system, enabling optimized conditions, as well as proven robustness under all of the aircraft's operating situations," said Francis Niss, president of Liebherr-Aerospace and Transportation SAS.
"The KC-390 program will benefit from the outstanding experience gained over the past decades by Liebherr-Aerospace in the design, production and service of air management systems for the most demanding military transport aircraft."
Flight tests of the KC-390, with the new environmental and cabin pressure control systems, are to begin in 2014. Aircraft are expected to go into service at the end of 2015.
