Lebanon completes restoration of another AB 212
Five AB 212s are being refurbished under a five-year programme announced in early 2020.
The Lebanese Air Force (LAF) has returned a second AB 212 helicopter (pictured) to service despite testing financial circumstances, the country’s MoD announced on 13 January.
Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, was quoted in an official statement as praising efforts to return the AB 212 fleet to frontline service, ‘especially after their success in returning two helicopters to service within two years of working with modest financial capabilities and under stifling economic conditions that required an austerity financial policy adopted by the military establishment’.
The LAF mothballed its AB 212 fleet from service in 1990 but in January 2020 it announced a five-year plan to restore five of the twin-engine helicopters.
Other rotary-wing platforms in the LAF inventory include the MD 530G Cayuse Warrior, six of which were provided by MD Helicopters under a contract signed in 2018.
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