A double first has been landed by AkzoNobel's Aerospace Coatings business after it supplied products for a new long-distance tanker aircraft commissioned by the French Air Force.
Featuring the company's Aerowave 5001 water-based coating, not only is it the French Air Force's first new generation A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) aircraft, it's also the first aircraft of its size to be finished with an external water-based topcoat.