Military Aircraft

(asked on 9th January 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Gareth Thomas Portrait
Gareth Thomas
(Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all of the flights flown by (a) No. 32 squadron since May 2016 and (b) all of the flights flown by aircraft ZZ336.

Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
This question was answered on 16th January 2020

This information is not held in the format requested. However, I am able to provide the number of taskings undertaken by 32 (The Royal) Squadron and Voyager ZZ336 flights by financial year(FY).

This is provided in the table below. Figures exclude routine aircrew training and engineering test flights.

Financial Year

FY2016-17

FY2017-18

FY2018-19

FY2019-20*

32 (The Royal) Sqn (Taskings) Note 1

301

360

327

217

Voyager ZZ336 (Flights)Note 2

68

110

109

74

*1 Apr-31 December only

Note 1- Each task could include multiple separate flights

Note 2-When not in use as a VIP aircraft, Voyager ZZ336 is also used for air-to-air refuelling alongside the rest of the Voyager fleet based at RAF Brize Norton.

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