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J.G.R Whatdotheyknow.com			Please reply to:

				Our Reference: 518293/1/1 11-11-2008 165523-005

				Date: 11 December 2008

Dear J.G.R

Request for Information - Military Aircraft Fleets

Your correspondence, dated 11 November 2008, has been considered to be a request for information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You asked for a list of military aircraft that are currently in the 'UK inventory'. Aircraft currently in-service with the UK armed forces are listed in the table below. This list excludes aircraft declared surplus and awaiting disposal, historic aircraft such as the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and commercially owned aircraft.

FIXED WING AIRCRAFT

Aircraft	Numbers of Aircraft	Future Aircraft Delivery	Planned Out of Service Date
BAE 125	6	Nil	2017
BAE 146	2	Nil	2017
C-17	6	Nil	2031
Defender	8	Nil	2038
Dominie	9	Nil	2013
Harrier GR7/GR9	65	Nil	2018
Harrier T10/T12	10	Nil	2018
Hawk T1/1A	129	Nil	2018
Hercules C-130K	15	Nil	2012
Hercules C-130J	24	Nil	2030
Islander AL Mk1	6	Nil	2012
Islander CC2	3	Nil	2015
Jetstream T Mk 2	9	Nil	2010
Jetstream T Mk 3	4	Nil	2008
Nimrod MR2	15	Nil	2011
Nimrod R1	3	Nil	(1)
Sentinel R Mk1	4	1	2038
Sentry E-3D AEW Mk1	7	Nil	2025
Tornado F3	72	Nil	2011
Tornado GR4/4A	138	Nil	2025
Tristar	9	Nil	2015
Tucano Mk1	95	Nil	2014
Typhoon	52	88	2029
VC-10	15	Nil	2014
Vigilant Glider	64	Nil	2015
Viking Glider	82	Nil	2015

(1) Nimrod R1 out of service date is dependent on the procurement strategy for a mission system capability update which has yet to be decided.

ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT

Aircraft	Numbers of Aircraft	Future Aircraft Delivery	Planned Out of Service Date
Augusta A109	4	Nil	2009
Apache	67	Nil	2030
Chinook Mk 2	34	Nil	2015
Chinook Mk 2a	6	Nil	2025
Gazelle	64	Nil	2012
Lynx Mk 3	30	Nil	2013
Lynx Mk 8	33	Nil	2015
Lynx Mk 7	74	Nil	2013
Lynx Mk 9	22	Nil	2013
Merlin Mk 1	42	Nil	2029
Merlin Mk 3	22	Nil	2030
Merlin Mk 3a	6	Nil	2030
Puma	34	Nil	2012
Sea King Mk 3/3a	25	Nil	2017
Sea King Mk 4	37	Nil	2012
Sea King Mk 6c	5	Nil	2010
Sea King Mk 5	15	Nil	2017
Sea King Mk 7	13	Nil	2018

The following aircraft are planned to enter service with the UK Armed Forces:

Aircraft	Planned In Service Date
Hawk T2	2009
A400M	2011
Nimrod MRA4	2010
Future Strategic TankerAircraft	2011
Joint Combat Aircraft	To be decided
Future Lynx (Army)	2014
Future Lynx (Royal Navy)	2015
Chinook Mk3	Late 2009

Further information about these aircraft is available on the Ministry of Defence website at http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/home .

If you are unhappy with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact me in the first instance. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Director of Information Exploitation, 6^th Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail [email address]). Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end.

If you remain unhappy following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not investigate the case until the internal review process has been completed. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's website, http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely

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