China's First Maritime Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Officially Inducted

TapTechNews August 8th news, according to CCTV News reports, this morning, China's first maritime fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft - the Air King 350ER fixed-wing aircraft, was officially inducted into the Donghai Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of Transport in Fuzhou, Fujian, and began to perform the duty of on-duty standby for maritime search and rescue missions, marking that the flight search and rescue radius of China's maritime professional salvage force has expanded from 200 nautical miles to 1,000 nautical miles.

It is reported that the Air King 350ER equipped this time is a long-range, high-performance fixed-wing aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 7.5 tons, a maximum range of 2,570 nautical miles, and a search and rescue radius of up to 1,000 nautical miles, the maximum flight speed is 561 kilometers per hour, and it can take off and land under the conditions of visibility not less than 800 meters and runway length greater than 1,300 meters. Except for extreme weather conditions, it can perform 24-hour all-weather instrument, night flight and maritime search and rescue tasks under freezing conditions, which will significantly enhance the comprehensive strength of China's deep-sea maritime emergency rescue.

TapTechNews learned that at present, China's traffic salvage system has deployed 218 high-horsepower salvage vessels, 24 rescue helicopters, 1 fixed-wing aircraft and 19 emergency rescue teams in the three major sea areas of the North Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, which has strongly enhanced the search and rescue ability of the maritime professional salvage team.