Leonardo has signed a contract with the Guardia di Finanza worth over 150 million euros for the supply of three ATR 72MP and related technical-logistical support services. The contract completes the acquisition of four aircraft, the first order for which was placed in July 2018, in the context of the award of a European tender. The first aircraft will be delivered by the end of 2019 while the entire supply will be completed by 2022.
“We are proud – he commented Alessandro Profumo, Chief Executive Officer of Leonardo – that the Guardia di Finanza has chosen to focus once again on our ATR 72MP, an aircraft that expresses Leonardo's technological capabilities at the highest levels in terms of design and integration of platforms and systems". Lucio Valerio Cioffi, Head of Leonardo's Aircraft Division added: "The ATR 72MP is an aircraft that combines reliability, low operating costs, all the advantages of the ATR 72-600 regional passenger transport aircraft with a cutting-edge mission”.
The ATR 72MP will be integrated into the aeronautical device of the Guardia di Finanza, within the context of the multiple roles assigned to the Corps by the current regulatory framework. The Guardia di Finanza is the only police force with general jurisdiction capable of exercising an incisive and constant surveillance activity along the entire national coastal development and in international waters, carried out also thanks to the advanced technological equipment installed on its aircraft. Peculiar latest generation features installed for the first time on the ATR72MP they will be useful to support specific surveillance activities entrusted to the Guardia di Finanza.
The ATR-72MP it will operate in air-sea patrol and research missions, using on-board sensors to locate and identify, even in a discreet manner, sensitive targets, monitor their behaviour, acquire sources of evidence, guide the intervention of naval units and land patrols.
