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One of the 8 aircraft remains available in a medical transport configuration so that there is no delay in converting the aircraft.
mxaxai wrote:The contract for three additional A330MRTT for the Spanish air force was signed a few days ago. These are conversions from used aircraft. The intent to acquire these aircraft was announced earlier this year already. The press release is a bit confusing but it appears that these will be delivered (as MRTT, post-conversion) between 2023 and 2025.
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/pres ... -a330-mrtt
audidudi wrote:The following frames are either in production or in FAL and are all designated as A330-243MRTTs…(AFAIK there is no current thread for new build A330-200 frames):
MSN 1998 French Air Force A332 F-WWCH/EC-339/F-UJCM-047
MSN 2007 French Air Force A332 F-WWCL/EC-341/F-UJCN-048
MSN 2008 French Air Force A332 F-WWCQ/EC-336/F-UJCO-049
MSN 2011 French Air Force A332 F-WWYN/EC-337/F-UJCP-0xx
MSN 2012 French Air Force A332 F-WWYS/EC-342/FUJCQ-0xx
MSN 2015 French Air Force A332 F-WWCI/EC338/F-UJCR-0xx
MSN 2022 French Air Force A332 F-WWKD/ECxxx/F-UJCU-0xx
MSN 2023 UAE Air Force A332 F-WWCH/1303
MSN 2036 UAE Air Force A332 F-xxxx/1304
MSN 2043 NATO/OTAN A332 F-xxxx/EC-xxx
audidudi wrote:I have listed the A330-243MRTTs so that anyone tracking the MSN#s can now see why there are missing gaps in the A338/A339 MSNs.
Everything can also be tracked here:
https://www.abcdlist.nl/a340f/a340f.html
JerseyFlyer wrote:I had sort of assumed that the used frames would be converted to MRTTs but it seems they need 3 vanilla transport frames alongside their MRTTs
