On 1 April 2021, after completing a two hour flight from the Spanish airport Getafe, the 4th Airbus A330 MRTT was delivered to Eindhoven AB, Netherlands. The new owner is the consortium of “NATO Support and Procurement Agency” and the aircraft will be transferred to the VLB Eindhoven based “Multinational Multirole Tanker Transport Unit”. The Airbus A330 MRTT aircraft (or KC-30M) are registered in the Netherlands by the Royal Netherlands Air Force. MRTT is an acronym of “Multi Role Tanker Transport” which indicates its dual role of a tanker and a transport aircraft. A total of nine aircraft will be delivered which will be stationed at VLB Eindhoven and at the German airport Cologne-Bonn.
(Text and photo by Joris van Boven and Alex van Noije)