Alenia Aermacchi signs €280m contract with Poland for eight M-346

Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, has signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence of Poland to supply eight M-346 Master. The contract – signed after the aircraft was selected, as already announced – is worth €280m. In addition to the eight aircraft, the provision also includes logistic support, a training programme for pilots and engineers and a ground-based training system with dedicated classrooms and educational materials. After Italy, Singapore and Israel, Poland is the fourth customer to order the M-346. The Polish contract raises the number of M-346 aircraft ordered to date to 56.