SOUTH KOREA IS TO purchase ten modified Raytheon Hawker 800XP business jets to meet a tactical reconnaissance requirement under a $450 million deal. The US Department of Defense first revealed the existence of the then classified South Korean requirement in 1995 (Flight International 20-26 September 1995, P4), when it notified the Congress that a competition for the programme was under way.
Deliveries of the modified Hawker 800XP aircraft will begin in 1999, with the first aircraft due to enter service at the turn of the century. The aircraft will be fitted with the Loral Advanced Imaging Radar System and a Raytheon E-Systems surveillance package.
Source: Flight International