16 Super Puma helicopters stasioned in Oakey Army Aviation Center Australia (photo : CQ Plane Spotting)
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LONGSTANDING agreement to host the training of Singapore air force helicopter
pilots in southern Queensland will be reviewed by a federal parliamentary
committee.
Under the
agreement first signed in 1997, the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) 126
Squadron operates up to 16 Cougar helicopters and has 150 RSAF personnel at the
Oakey Army Aviation Centre.
The
agreement expires at the end of December and is proposed it be renewed for
another 15 years.
"Oakey
has hosted Singaporean helicopter squadrons since 1997 and this should help the
committee assess the costs and benefits of the agreement," the treaties
committee chairman, Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, said in a statement.
The house
treaties committee will hold an inquiry into the arrangement in Canberra on
Monday.
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