PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Military Aircraft (13 April 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedures are in place for the naming of RAF aircraft.
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)
Answer
The RAF does not routinely give individual aircraft names and there is no formal protocol or regulation regarding the naming of RAF aircraft. However, aircraft are occasionally given names and there is precedent, particularly during World War II, for philanthropic individuals or groups to donate aircraft and they were often given the opportunity to name them.
Answered by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)
20 April 2017
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