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Old 26th Jun 2020, 11:49
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More on that £900,000 price tag...

Aviation Week's London-based Tony Osborne says
Part of that cost likely stems from the fact that the Voyagers are not owned by the RAF, but operated on their behalf by the Airtanker consortium—a joint venture of Airbus, Cobham, Rolls-Royce and Thales—and the livery is a bespoke scheme. According to the UK defense ministry, the work was contracted directly with Airtanker through its Private Finance Initiative contract and had to account for the aircraft’s certification, regulatory and licensing requirements. A competitive tender was issued for the repainting work.
https://aviationweek.com/defense-spa...c367bad88af05f
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