Competition
Final bids for the project were received from the two competing consortia on 30 April 2003.
- Air Tanker Ltd offered a mix of new and used Airbus A330-200s, team composed of:
- Rolls-Royce - Trent 700 turbofans
- Cobham - Air-refuelling hose and drogue system
- EADS - Airbus A330-200
- Thales Group - Avionics and training.
- Tanker Transport Services Consortium (TTSC) offered converted British Airways Boeing 767s:
- British Airways - Aircraft
- Boeing - Conversion technology, using the KC-767 as the basis of the design.
- BAE Systems - Conversion of majority of aircraft and mission systems.
- Marshall Aerospace
- Serco
- Spectrum Capital
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