MRTT Numbers A330

[Antheii]

Visited Getafe last August, below MRTTs were noted;

EC-HLA indeed seemed stored. Last recorded flight was in October 2022.
F-UJCS/F13 for France, in full c/s.
MRTT-065 for UAEAF, seen in fcs. It carried only MRTT-065 "registration", nothing else.
EC-346/U5 was seen in primer. Also for UAE.
EC-347/M9 was seen in primer. For NATO/KLu.

[David Moore]

Hi, Seen Getafe on the afternoon of Friday 22.11.24 were:

????? TK.2_-__ MRTT073 A330-MRTT, for Ejercito del Aire
????? MRTT066 A330-MRTT, for UAE
(F-UJCS) F13 EC-351 A330-MRTT, France
T-062 MRTT062 A330-MRTT, NATO
765 A330-MRTT, Republic of Singapore Air Force
A310-489 A310-MRTT, demonstrator

Regards, David

[Flyboy]

I completed the list with all the input received: thanks fot that; it's a team effort! MRTT001 - MRTT072 are known, MRTT073 seems for Spain and 17 more tankers to be allocated.

I included dummy lines for those aircraft ordered but no MRTT number known yet. See also the press releases below.

It is to be expected that he RSAF will continue numbering their fleet.
Canada has 5 used airframes and one newly build already; three more to be revealed.
The NATO fleet is expecting a 10th airframe in 2026 for which MRTT063 seems to be available, maybe MRTT064 is reserved for an eleventh in the future. According to a NATO factsheet there were optionsfo a total of 11 tankers.



https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/pres ... a330-mrtts

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/pres ... a330-mrtts

https://www.pilootenvliegtuig.nl/2024/0 ... e-te-gaan/
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014 ... t-mrtt.pdf

[David Moore]

MRTT073 seems for Spain

MRTT073 was marked TK.24.__ on 22.11.24, so definitely for Spain. Unfortunately the rest of the serial was not clear (or not present) so I can't say whether it was 02 or 03.

Photo (sadly not mine) here https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/11546585

Regards, David