{"id":3544,"date":"2020-12-13T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T15:39:55","slug":"a-29b-super-tucanos-handed-over-to-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PhilippineS An official ceremony was held on October 13 to hand over six Embraer A-29B Super Tucano close air support aircraft to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) at Clark Air Base, Pampanga<\/strong>.<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-3545\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-12-A-29B-Super-Tucanos-handed-over-to-the-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-12-A-29B-Super-Tucanos-handed-over-to-the-Philippines.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-12-A-29B-Super-Tucanos-handed-over-to-the-Philippines-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-12-A-29B-Super-Tucanos-handed-over-to-the-Philippines-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br><em>The six Philippine Air Force A-29Bs that were handed over at Clark Air Base on October 13 (Photo by Embraer)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will join the 15th Strike Wing, to supplement the remaining SF260s and OV-10 Broncos used in strike missions. The aircraft arrived in country in late September\/early October, following delivery flights from the factory in Brazil (see Philippines\u2019 Super Tucanos land, AFM November, p24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his speech at the acceptance ceremony, Philippines defence secretary Delfin Lorenzana indicated his interest in acquiring a further six aircraft, stating: \u201cI was discussing with the Commanding General [PAF chief Lt Gen Allen Paredes] a while ago [that] having six Super Tucanos is good but another six would be better.&#8221; It was not immediately clear whether this was wishful thinking, or if the PAF is seriously considering purchasing afurther six A-29Bs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Source: <\/strong>AirForces Monthly &#8211; December 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Editor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamil Kemal <\/a><\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Asian \u00a9XAirForces News <\/a>Editor from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Malaysia<\/a><\/strong>) <a href=\"mailto:KamilKemal75@yandex.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">KamilKemal75@yandex.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/newsd.asp?newsid=3174&amp;newst=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">A-29B Super Tucanos handed over to the Philippines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhilippineS An official ceremony was held on October 13 to hand over six Embraer A-29B Super Tucano close air support aircraft to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) at Clark Air Base, Pampanga. The six&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1670,36,19,173,1723,1702,7,31,3088,6,30,18,16,1673],"tags":[3692,3689,3690,88,3693,3688,2427,3691],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}