{"id":95913,"date":"2017-03-29T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95913"},"modified":"2017-03-29T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:52:15","slug":"no-plans-yet-to-retire-pn-britten-norman-islander-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/29\/no-plans-yet-to-retire-pn-britten-norman-islander-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"No plans yet to retire PN Britten-Norman Islander fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95914\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95914\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine Navy (PN)'s venerable Britten-Norman Islander aircraft will not be retired even if all the five Japanese Beechcraft King Air TC-90 aircraft are delivered this year. (Photo: Philippine Navy\/ Faceook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1010150_10152539189862956_5770691743558969356_n-2-768x674.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Navy (PN)&#8217;s venerable Britten-Norman Islander aircraft will not be retired even if all the five Japanese Beechcraft King Air TC-90 aircraft are delivered this year. (Photo: P<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philippinenavy\">hilippine Navy\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2013The Philippine Navy (PN)&#8217;s venerable Britten-Norman Islander aircraft will not be retired even if all the five Japanese Beechcraft King Air TC-90 aircraft are delivered this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not retire (our Britten-Norman Islander fleet) yet. The TC-90s will just complement them and add to the number of aircraft that the PN is (using) for its maritime domain awareness capabilities,&#8221; said PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Ronald Joseph Mercado.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy currently operates six Britten-Norman Island aircraft for its patrol and other security missions, having acquired them in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>It has a maximum speed of 170 miles per hour and range of 756 nautical miles.<\/p>\n<p>While the TC-90s have a range of over 1,000 nautical miles, and a cruising speed of 260 knots and capable of carrying eight passengers along with the pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, Japanese naval personnel formally turned over two of the five TC-90s to the PN during short ceremonies in Sangley Point, Cavite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2013The Philippine Navy (PN)&#8217;s venerable Britten-Norman Islander aircraft will not be retired even if all the five Japanese Beechcraft King &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[17200,11004,17201],"class_list":["post-95913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-britten-norman-islander-fleet","tag-philippine-navy","tag-retire","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}