The Embraer KC-390 won the “Concours d’Elegance” award for the world’s most elegant aircraft. Received the award for the category Portuguese Air Force Participant in the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAD) Air Festival this weekend in England.

The award is given by an international panel that judges the best built and delivered aircraft at the show.

The Concours d’Elegance is divided into three categories: Military aircraft, Civil aircraft and Grand Winner, the most important. A plane from the Portuguese Air Force won the most outstanding trophy.

Portugal was the first country to purchase a Brazilian military aircraft in 2019, when the Portuguese government announced the purchase of five K-390 cargo planes for 827 million euros.

The second copy of the KC-390 was delivered to the Portuguese in June of this year.

The aircraft has also been deployed in other disastrous situations: at the height of the second wave of the Covid pandemic, in January 2021, Manas recorded a shortage of oxygen in a hospital treating seriously ill patients.

The most recent is the Jornal Nacional followed a KC-390 carrying supplies from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Grande do Sul.

Soldiers heading to Rio Grande do Sul airlifted 14 tons of equipment to build a field hospital, including tarpaulins, stretchers and refrigeration equipment.