BAE Systems, FARNBOROUGH: The world-renowned Red Arrows have helped BAE Systems deliver the first of six new-generation Hawk advanced jet trainers to the Royal Bahrain Air Force (RBAF) at a ceremony held during the Farnborough International Air Show.
Piloted by BAE Systems test pilot Nat Makepeace and Lt Col Omar Ebrahim Mohamed Al Mahmood, F-16 pilot instructor for the RBAF, the aircraft flew into Farnborough formation with the world famous Red Arrows aerobatic team before being handed over to His Highness Sheikh Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain, and Commander in Chief of the Bahraini Defence Force, Colonel Hamad bin Abdullah Hamad Al Khalifa, the Commander of the RBAF was also in attendance.
BAE Systems is supplying six Hawk advanced jet trainers along with a package of equipment, support and training as part of an integrated flying training system which will enable the RBAF to improve the number and quality of its frontline pilots by developing an indigenous aviation training capability.
BAE Systems CS&S International programme director Mark Greenhalgh said
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