Keeping the Buffalos flying

Yet another effort to maintain one type of fixed-wing SAR capability?

Air force wants retiring Brazilian planes to keep aging Canadian Buffalos going

This is where things stood in July.

Update: Interesting comment at Milnet.ca (C-295 has been in the running with the C-27J for our new fixed-wing SAR aircraft, and lost out to the C-27J in the US's Joint Cargo Aircraft competition):

This plan has already slipped to the right. Apparently the Brazilians are not so eager to get rid of their Buffalo's. They were replacing them with the EADS C-295 and have discovered that they weren't quite up to the job that was being presented to them. Apparently EADS made these machines look better on paper than they really were - big shocker there!