Eurofighter GmbH, HALLBERGMOOS, Germany: The handover of Eurofighter BS021 and BS022 to the Royal Air Force at BAE Systems' Warton site marks the delivery of the 100th Eurofighter production aircraft into service with the four partner nations and industry. Aircraft number 100 was handed over on Friday, September 29th 2006 and capped a double milestone for the programme following the completion of 5,000 Eurofighter Typhoon flights by the Eurofighter four nation industry test fleet.
The test fleet operated by the partner companies in Getafe (Spain), Manching (Germany), Turin (Italy) and Warton (United Kingdom) now comprises five prototype Development Aircraft, five Instrumented Production Aircraft and one Instrumented Series Production Aircraft.
Aloysius Rauen, CEO Eurofighter GmbH comments:
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