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Embraer KC-390 Millennium push: Colombia and Chile talks, UAE contract signing, and Lithuania industrial partnership

Embraer is renewing KC-390 Millennium campaigns in Colombia and Chile, with the company citing near-term procurement discussions for tactical cargo aircraft. Separately, Embraer says it is pursuing a broad industrial partnership with Lithuania to strengthen its European footprint. A separate milestone: the UAE Air Force contract for C-390 Millennium aircraft was signed under the witness of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Discovered 2026-05-11T06:22:01.890950-07:00 | 2026-05-11T06:22:01.890950-07:00

Briefing

What Hype is tracking

Tracks Embraer’s efforts to convert KC/C-390 Millennium market-building in Latin America into concrete purchase decisions, including expectations of near-term contracting activity in Colombia and continued evaluation in Chile.
Highlights how the program’s commercial momentum is being underpinned by country-level industrial participation—via an announced industrial partnership push with Lithuania—to broaden European competitiveness.
Reinforces the KC/C-390’s expanding customer set with a UAE Air Force contract signing, while ongoing sales outreach follows earlier efforts such as Embraer’s global KC-390 demonstrator tour (source:dbe7ce36-0930-4091-ad56-ede358c9e19d) and the aircraft’s avionics/mission positioning work like the KC-390 boom refuelling option (source:8247eed4-ddf4-433c-bc19-c4f380bec455).

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