An agreement was signed by the Qatar Amiri Air Force with Canada’s Viking Air to purchase the DHC-6 Twin Otter parachute jumping aircraft.
Staff Major General (Pilot) Mubarak Mohamed al-Khayarin, Commander of the Qatar Amiri Air Force, with Peter Walker, regional sales director of Viking Air in Doha, signed the agreement.
Captain (Pilot) Abdullah al-Hadfa, the deputy chairman of the committee for parachute jumping aircraft, said that the purchase comes upon the instructions of His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah, for the team concerned at the Joint Special Forces.
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