Kumertau Aviation Plant helicopters will join Turkish emergency services fleet

UFA, 27 August 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Alfiya Agliullina/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. In the near future helicopters of the Ka-32 brand of the Kumertau Aircraft Production Company (KumAPP) will replenish the fleet of search and rescue services in Turkey. It is planned that already this week three helicopters will be exported to the Republic of Turkey, "Bashkortostan" TV and Radio Company reports.

Earlier, the Bashinform News Agency with reference to the Russian Helicopters holding informed that KumAPP received an order for the production of seven multi-purpose helicopters Ka-32A11BC for the Turkish company Kaan Air. Two more such helicopters will be delivered to the countries of South-East Asia the same year.

As explained by the press service of the holding, the helicopter of this modification is optimal for saving people, extinguishing forest fires and fighting fires in high-rise buildings. Ka-32A11BC is used in Russia, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, China, South Korea and Indonesia.