July 08 2015
The British Royal Air Force has accepted its third of 22 A400M cargo aircraft, reports Flight International.
The aircraft made the 2.5-hour flight from the Airbus Defence and Space final assembly facility in Seville, Spain, to Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Sunday, according to the RAF.
This was the second A400M delivered to the U.K. this year. The handover was delayed by a grounding following the crash of a French A400M during a test flight in Seville on May 9.
The RAF...
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