C-230 Karaka'rá

The FAM C-230 Karaka'rá is a Maracatibe developed by FAM to meet the needs of Maracatibean Air Force for an aircraft capable to serve isolated regios, operating in primitive and short airstrips.

Some regions of Maracatibe are very difficult to access, due to the almost 1.4 million km² of the country basically consisting of a dense. Tens of thousands of Maracatibean citizens live in small communities that can only be reached by river or air, with some, especially isolated, requiring long days of river trips. For these cases, transport, especially emergency transport, as in cases of or in some type of intervention related to security and defense, is best performed by air. However, precisely because they are such isolated areas, the airport infrastructure in these regions is very primitive, often consisting of a mere open dirt airstrip in the middle of the forest, with no, and little visual signage. In this way, the Karaka'rá project was conducted to offer a compact transport aircraft, with a rear ramp to facilitate cargo placement, which can operate on these runways, whose use of larger planes such as [] and [] is not feasible. The Karaka'rá allows the transport of cargo and passengers from short and improvised tracks, such as those found in the middle of the dense Maracatibean forest.