AIRBUS DEFENCE and Space has completed 100 deliveries of its A400M with the tenth for the Spanish Air Force, T.23-10/10219 '31-30' (c/n 111), which was handed over on May 24 and delivered to Ala 31 at Zaragoza Air Base, in the same week, the type also reached 100,000 flight-hours across the fleets of the eight customer nations, comprising Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey and the UK. In a May 25 press release, Airbus also stated that the A400M had recently conducted a key helicopter air-to-air refuelling certification flight test campaign in co-ordination with the French Directorate General of Armaments, completing the majority of its certification objectives, including the first simultaneous refuelling of two helicopters.
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