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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Kinloss CO looks forward to new aircraft's arrival

Nimrod Maritime Patrol AircraftDoubts that the new Nimrod might not see service at RAF Kinloss should be silenced this week with the news that production is well underway of nine new Nimrod MRA4, with the first aircraft due to land at RAF Kinloss to replace the aged MR2 fleet by January next year.

The "Forres Gazette" revealed last week that servicemen at RAF Kinloss are planning to honour the old aircraft by forming a committee who are hoping that the RAF will donate one of the old MR2 aircraft as a "gate guardian" to be mounted in concrete on a site just past the officers' mess, opposite the Kinloss farm shop.

This week the "Gazette" can reveal that, following the 2006 contract award by the Ministry of Defence, all nine production aircraft are now in manufacture at BAE Systems Woodford site, near Manchester.

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