NEARLY £1million has been wasted on old planes to be used in the failed Rwanda migrants scheme.
Home Office chiefs splashed out £671,000 on fuselages to be used in training for removals.
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Since the controversial scheme was axed, taxpayers face another £268,000 bill for having them kept in storage — by the firm that originally supplied them.
The total bill for just this part of the doomed plan, scrapped by Labour last July, is £939,000.
Three old Airbus fuselages were bought for Border Force officers to practice getting migrants on flights to Africa.
They were set up in a film studio hangar — used for Netflix competition show Squid Game: The Challenge, Batman blockbusters and a Rihanna video.
The hangar at Cardington Airfield, Beds, was hired for training for 15 months until the end of last year at a cost of £6,425,285 — meaning the facility was unused for at least six months.
The plane bodies were briefly used for training but have been kept at Cotswold Airport, Gloucs, since November.
Contract details between the Home Office (Immigration Enforcement Team) and Air Salvage International show the firm is to be paid £268,110 for “removal and storage of modified aircraft fuselages for Use of Force training”.
Air Salvage boss Mark Gregory said they would be held in storage until the Government found a new location for them.
The Home Office said the storage deal had been “extended” in November.
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