Fire Fighting System Integration on C-27J Aircraft
Francesco GIUGLIANO, Fabio CHIACCHIO, Pierpaolo BORRELLI, Marco DI GIFICO, Rosalia GRAZIANO, Salvatore PANICO
Abstract. The C-27J Fire Fighting program was born from the growing need in the fight against forest fires for a fixed-wing platform that is complementary to the Canadair fleet (CL-415) in a national and international context. It aims to create a firefighting version of the C-27J transport aircraft through the integration of an additional module and the related certification and industrialization, enhanching its multi-role capability. The work aims at presenting the modelling, simulation and testing activity performed in 2024 through the integration of a prototypical System on C-27J. The analytical approach developed and validated during this phase will be used to support the development of the first series unit of the System, where issues in terms of Centre of Gravity excursion will be more important because of the increase in payload.
Keywords
Fire Fighting, System Integration, Aircraft Capability Enhancing, Virtual Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flight Testing Optimization
Published online 7/20/2026, 5 pages
Copyright © 2026 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Francesco GIUGLIANO, Fabio CHIACCHIO, Pierpaolo BORRELLI, Marco DI GIFICO, Rosalia GRAZIANO, Salvatore PANICO, Fire Fighting System Integration on C-27J Aircraft, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 69, pp 431-435, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644904251-78
The article was published as article 78 of the book CEAS – AIDAA Conference 2025
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