GROB G120TP WINS COMPETITION TO SUPPLY INDONESIAN AIR FORCE WITH FUTURE TRAINER AIRCRAFT

Grob Aircraft, with its new and revolutionary, turbo-prop powered, Grob G 120TP has secured an important new customer in Asia by winning the selection competition to supply the Indonesian Air Force with its future trainer aircraft. Deliveries will commence in 2012. The Grob G 120TP, now viewed as the most highly advanced and cost-effective military ‘trainer of choice’ for the 21 st Century was chosen by the Indonesian Air Force in the face of fierce competition from the Finmeccanica SF-260TP and the Pacific Aerospace CT-4. Asia is seen by Grob as a key region with the potential for several other Air Forces to follow the example set by Indonesia, to procure the G 120TP and thereby deliver to their Training Organisations the highest possible advanced training potential at the lowest possible operating and maintenance cost. Grob is supplying the G 120TP to the Indonesian Air Force with a fully integrated, maintenance support contract. The Indonesian Air Force will operate the G 120TP in the Elementary and Basic Training roles but the innovative ‘system of systems’ training approach that the G 120TP represents, as a complete package, will encompass computer based ground training, mission briefing/debriefing and advanced, state of the art, embedded cockpit simulation.