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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Flat denial on Nimrods delay

NimrodReports that the arrival of new Nimrod search and rescue planes at Moray’s RAF Kinloss airbase had been hit by delays were flatly denied by defence chiefs last night.

The claims prompted a major scare over the future of the base which was virtually mothballed when the last Labour government scrapped the old Nimrod fleet a year early, but a statement issued by the Ministry of Defence last night said: “There has been no further delay to the delivery of the MRA4 aircraft to RAF Kinloss.”

A spokeswoman said the first of the new fleet of nine planes was delivered to the RAF in March, and subject to trials will be delivered to Kinloss in the middle of next month. The plane is expected to be on display at a friends and families day at the base on August 21.

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