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Military Aircraft

Volume 494: debated on Monday 15 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) planned and (b) actual usage hours for (i) TriStar and (ii) VC10 aircraft there were in each year since 2003. (280067)

For figures covering financial years 2003-04 to 2007-08 I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend, the then Minister of State for the Armed Forces, on the 10 July 2008, Official Report, column 1748W, to the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox). The planned and actual flying hours for 2008-09 are shown in the following table:

2008-09

Tristar

Planned

11,561

Actual

8,966

VC10

Planned

9,254

Actual

8,952