Sea Sultan Long-Range MPA | Updates & Discussion

[Ali_Baba]

They are quite hard to find. I don’t believe it is still in production. We have been scavenging around for airframes. Only 6 have been procured against demand of 10.

There are quite a few for sale - the slow pace of induction has more to do with the conversion rate into Sea Sultans and finances, than the availability of the platform itself.

 

[Yasser76]

PN main issue with the Lineage 1000 is the availability of running spares & consumables. Embraer has marked the PN Lineage as a military aircraft which causes issues when the PN wants to buy spares and consumables from the open market as the aircraft registration is no longer as a civilian platform. This problem will also continue to haunt PN for the additional converted LRMPA platforms in the future unless PN comes to a workable deal with Embraer itself.

Maybe that could be the reason of handing over the first Lineage 1000 as a VVIP transport is to perhaps label it back into civilian registry.

The situation remains confusing however as the pilots flying the Lineage 1000 remain from PN

It is basically an E190 with extra tanks, unsure spares will be a massive issue moving forward.

 

[Dreamer]

Additionally, having the PM and Army Chief on the same plane travelling is a bad bad idea.

Not sure if that's true with the current lot...

 

[Ali_Baba]

Not sure if that's true with the current lot...

Yes - that is a different topic entirely - but right now, "we live in dangerous times" and having that separation is important for Pakistan itself. Being leaderless(of sorts) via a plane crash is too much risk against a foe like India.