29 Jan 03. BAE SYSTEMS announced on Wednesday a contract with the Kingdom of Bahrain for final phases of the establishment of a flying training school including Hawk aircraft.

Following the announcement made in July 2002 during Farnborough by His Majesty the King, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, The Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) announced that it has contracted with BAE for the supply of Hawk Advanced Jet Training aircraft, together with the necessary synthetics and simulators to provide a complete indigenous flying school in the Kingdom of Bahrain.The contract is constituted under a Government-to-Government memorandum MoU.