Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft
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Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many flying hours have been completed on VIP configured RAF Voyager aircraft in each of the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 13th December 2017
From November 2016 to November 2017 the VIP configured RAF Voyager was used for VIP tasking for a total of 214 Hours and 16 Minutes.
Statistics are recorded as 'chock-to-chock' times from engine start to engine shutdown, so they include taxi time between the gate and the runway around the aerodromes. This aircraft also undertakes training and air-to-air refuelling flights when not required for VIP tasking.