Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 29 November 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hours for a) training and b) operations and exercises have been flown by I) C130-J II) C17 and III) A400m aircraft in each of the last five years.
The hours flown by each fleet on operations and all other Defence Support and Training tasks is contained in the table below.
Annual Hours flown
FY2018/19 | FY2019/20 | FY2020/21 | FY2021/22 | FY2022/23* | ||
Ops | 1,582 | 1,363 | 2,580 | 2,867 | 1,811 | |
Def Support and Trg | 3,894 | 3,571 | 5,180 | 3,506 | 3,038 | |
Total | 5,476 | 4,934 | 7,760 | 6,373 | 4,849 | |
Ops | 2,679 | 2,108 | 2,003 | 2,532 | 1,261 | |
Def Support and Trg | 4,783 | 3,552 | 3,739 | 3,242 | 2,163 | |
Total | 7,462 | 5,660 | 5,742 | 5,774 | 3,424 | |
Ops | 4,342 | 3,505 | 3,517 | 2,585 | 1,049 | |
Def Support and Trg | 2,033 | 2,118 | 1,962 | 3,248 | 1,852 | |
Total | 6,375 | 5,623 | 5,479 | 5,833 | 2,901 | |
*Up to October 2022 |
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