{"id":403197,"date":"2025-09-06T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:35:09","slug":"new-deal-could-see-red-arrows-jets-built-in-ayrshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403197\/","title":{"rendered":"New deal could see Red Arrows jets built in Ayrshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A new deal means that Scotland is a &#8220;strong contender&#8221; to build the next generation of Red Arrows planes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British aircraft manufacturer Aeralis and Glasgow Prestwick International Airport have signed a strategic agreement, formalising their joint approach to the building of the aircraft in Ayrshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That deal, signed on Saturday during the Ayrshire Festival of Flight, could see new planes for the Red Arrows &#8211; the aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force &#8211; built in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Red Arrows currently fly in Hawk T1 jets that are due to be retired in 2030 &#8211; and Aeralis is reportedly the only firm in the UK designing and building a manned light jet aircraft, which could act as a replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new deal means that Scotland is a &#8220;strong contender&#8221; to build the next generation of Red Arrows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158563235955295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}