Air Force: Military Aid

(asked on 26th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 176506, how many pilots the RAF has trained on behalf of other countries broken down by country in each of the last 10 years.


This question was answered on 1st November 2018

Pilots from other nations routinely train alongside RAF pilots. Between 1 January 2009 and 30 October 2018, the following were trained by the RAF on behalf of other countries:

Nation

Number of pilots

Algeria

14

Australia

~

Bahrain

5

Brunei

7

Iraq

14

Kenya

12

Kuwait

97

Netherlands

~

New Zealand

~

Oman

16

Portugal

~

Qatar

7

Saudi Arabia

102

UAE

5

Where numbers are below 5, they have been replaced with ‘~’ in order to avoid the identification of individual pilots. It is not possible to identify the numbers of pilots trained each year, as training typically spans multiple years.

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