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3rd Nov 2008, 17:57

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DennisW & BrainPotter. According to the Mod there is no problem. Page 110 of the MoD Annual Report and Accounts Volume I 2007-08 (For the year ended 31 March 2008) states clearly that:

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We have procured two further C17 Globemaster aircraft in addition to the four envisaged in 2004 and we signed the £13Bn PFI contract for a fleet of new Air Transport and Refuelling Airbus A330-200s to replace the RAF’s TriStar and VC-10 aircraft in March 2008.

So they were all paid off after Easter. Job done!

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