CGB
The current contract holder has been running the gliders since the RAF gave them the contract, one has to assume that had the military paperwork system running along with the skilled staff employed to support the contract.......... The only problem is the MAA pulled the plug on them for failing to do the job properly, if their quality system had been up to scratch they would have found the alleged shortcomings of the previous RAF maintenance and pulled the aircraft with paperwork problems off line until it was sorted.
The new contractors for the Viking recovery had in place EASA145 as the tutors are civil aircraft, so the military paperwork system has to be put in place to comply with the MAA way of doing things.
Paul M
The glider manufactures don't have the capacity to get new aircraft delivered as anything like the rate the recovery program can get the current aircraft back in the air.