With the official UK plane in use by Prince Charles, Canada Force One pips prime minister’s stand-in Airbus A321 by 2 metres
Both had recently arrived on gruelling overnight flights from a Commonwealth summit in Rwanda, with Johnson remarking on this as the pair sat down for their chat, shortly before reporters and TV crews were ushered out.Force One – it’s a big plane,” Johnson went on, a reference to Trudeau’s official aircraft, more usually known as Can Force One.
CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military variant of the relatively elderly A310-300, a model in service for almost four decades. Johnson’s official plane is a Voyager, an RAF plane used as a mid-air refuelling tanker as well as kitted out for VIP passenger use. Based on the long-haul Airbus A330, it is just short of 60 metres long.
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