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Australia signed a 12-month memorandum of understanding in September to send an initial 12 pilots to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where they will undergo Phase IIA basic training using the school's Beechcraft T-6A Harvard IIs. "The Royal Australian Air Force has supplied two instructor pilots to the Phase II programme, and the first four of its students started training in October," says Lt Col Dave Hughes, deputy director air for the Canadian Forces' contracted force generation office.
Industry sources linked to the NFTC system have meanwhile confirmed that Austria signed a three-year deal during July, and that its first of six students are already in conversion training in Moose Jaw before conducting Phase IV fighter lead-in work at Cold Lake, Alberta using the BAE Systems Hawk 115. Vienna's MoU covers two students a year, although it is also believed to be studying the possibility of supplying instructors to the Canadian system.