{"id":571164,"date":"2026-03-30T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:37:14","slug":"ottawa-earmarks-1-5-billion-to-support-rcafs-new-husky-tanker-fleet-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/571164\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa earmarks $1.5 billion to support RCAF\u2019s new Husky tanker fleet | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774892234_861_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Airbus A330 MRTT tanker and transport aircraft being built at the Airbus manufacturing plant in Getafe, Spain, on March 31, 2025. (AP Photo\/Bernat Armangue)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 30, 2026 | 8:55 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government has set aside about $1.5 billion to maintain and service the Royal Canadian Air Force\u2019s new fleet of Husky aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Canada is acquiring nine CC-330 Husky tanker and transport aircraft \u2014 four brand-new, five used \u2014 to replace the aging CC-150 Polaris.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Investment Agency announced three new contracts to support the tankers\u2019 continuous operations \u2014 which will include refuelling other aircraft mid-flight and conducting cargo lifts and medical evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>The agency awarded two contracts totalling $1.1 billion to L3Harris MAS for maintenance and equipment support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Airbus A330 MRTT tanker and transport aircraft being built at the Airbus manufacturing plant in Getafe, Spain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-571164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}