The Embraer KC-390 aircraft won the “Concours d’Elegance” award, which selects the most beautiful aircraft in the world. A unit of the received this award Portuguese Air Force Who took part in the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) aviation festival that took place in the UK this weekend.

The prizes are awarded by an international jury that assesses the best prepared and representative aircraft at the exhibition.

The Concours d’Elegance is divided into three categories: military aircraft, civil aircraft and the grand winner, which is the most important. The aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force won the most outstanding trophy.

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

The second unit of the KC-390 was handed over to the Portuguese in June of this year.

The aircraft has also been deployed in other disasters: in January 2021, at the height of the crisis of the second wave of the Covid pandemic, a shortage of oxygen was detected in the hospital in Manaus to treat patients in critical condition.

more recently, Jornal Nacional followed a flight in a KC-390 that left Rio de Janeiro with supplies for Rio Grande do Sul.

En route to Rio Grande do Sul, the soldiers loaded 14 tons of equipment onto the plane to build a field hospital, such as tarpaulins, stretchers and cooling equipment.