Sentence examples for official aircraft from inspiring English sources

President Jiang Zemin's luxurious official aircraft turned out to have some unadvertised features, according to reports that filtered through the Chinese military.

I'm amazed the news of his £10m official aircraft wasn't spun as a permanent secretary's plane in which the prime minister might sometimes be given a lift.

But as soon as the government's official aircraft — the Konrad Adenauer, an old East German Airbus — left California, the crew members got news that much of Europe's northern airspace had been closed.

It may well now do so.The immediate changes are strikingly modest: an increase in vehicle tax for large cars; staff cuts in an overseas trade promotion body; and restrictions on the use of official aircraft.

The abuse of New York State's taxpayer-financed official aircraft has been one of many problems obscured by all the fuss over Gov. Eliot Spitzer administration's "trooper blooper," as one of his friends calls it.

Yet when the relationship seemed to be at its warmest, when Condoleezza gave up her bed to Straw on her official aircraft, her administration was signalling to Tony Blair that Straw was unsound and should go.

"The question is, will we replace them?" Administration officials, aircraft lobbyists and Congressional officials say the decision to buy the 30 Blackhawks was the culmination of lobbying efforts and political struggles dating from 1996.

Officials also said that Mr. Maduro was flying in a Cubana Airlines jet and that diplomatic flight requests were supposed to involve official state aircraft.

Drug-control officials say aircraft and boats laden with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of cocaine still cross the Atlantic towards remote islands scattered off Guinea-Bissau's coast.

Administration officials said aircraft parts, specialized metals and gas detectors that have a potential military use had also moved through Dubai, one of the emirates, to Iran, Syria or Pakistan.

Military officials said aircraft released more than 100 tons of bombs in the first nine hours of fighting, focusing initially on militant training camps, rocket-manufacturing facilities and weapons warehouses that had been identified in advance.