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Tornado operators have undertaken various life extension and upgrade programmes to keep their Tornado fleets as viable frontline aircraft. With these upgrades it is projected that the Tornado shall be in service until 2025, more than 50 years after the first prototype took flight. [59] [needs update]
Twelve of these were dual-control versions. Sixteen were subsequently converted to ECR aircraft. [2] [3] In 1993, an agreement was reached with the United Kingdom to lease a total of 24 ADV aircraft, which were operated until 2004. [4] [5] As of 2018, Italy operates 70 Tornado IDS and 5 Tornado ECR. [1] 102° Gruppo, 6° Stormo at Ghedi, flying ...
The Tornado F2 was the initial version of the Tornado ADV in RAF service, a total of 18 aircraft were built. Making its first flight on 5 March 1984, it was powered by the same RB.199 Mk 103 engines used by the IDS Tornado, capable of four wing sweep settings, and fitted to carry only two underwing Sidewinder missiles. [15]
Another variant was the Tornado ECR (Electronic Combat and Reconnaissance), developed for the Luftwaffe, and proposed to be sold to the US in 1985. Its all-weather capabilities at the time were unmatched in the world. [citation needed] The Tornado aircraft is expected to remain in service until at least 2025.
Panavia Tornado GR1B ZA450 in No. 12 (B) Squadron markings and an Operation Bolton tail flash. In September 1993, No. 27 Squadron, then based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, disbanded and immediately re-formed as No. 12 (B) Squadron operating twelve Panavia Tornado GR1B aircraft and relocated to RAF Lossiemouth. The squadron was equipped with ...
Air Spray - current operator of converted BAe 146 aircraft as aerial firefighting air tankers. Air Wisconsin (operating as United Express) - former operator of BAe 146-100, 146-200 and 146-300 aircraft. Only U.S. operator of BAe 146-300. American Airlines - former operator (ex-AirCal aircraft)
The process started with the F3 variant of the aircraft as it was the first to be withdrawn completely from service, and moved onto the GR4 variant later. In October 2017, it was announced that the full retirement of the Tornado aircraft from RAF service in 2019 meant that this process would end with the loss of 245 British Aerospace jobs ...
At Mattersey in north Nottinghamshire on 21 January 1999 at 11.35pm, a Cottesmore Tornado 'ZA330' had a mid air collision with a light aircraft Cessna 152 'G-BPZX' [8] [9] In the Tornado was Flt Lt Greg Hurst, aged 35, and Second Lt Matteo di Carlo, an Italian, who had been with the RAF since 4 December 1998, from Rieti , and he had his 25th ...