However, the company admitted that the new A400M military transport aircraft has been beset with technical problems, forcing it to delay its first flight.
Some were airlifted into the state by military transport aircraft.
Two British military transport aircraft have been assigned to help with the French troop deployment, but no British forces will be in a combat role, the UK Foreign Office said.
Within hours he was diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, a virus nasty enough for him to be put onto a military transport aircraft for transfer to an isolation hospital in London.
The Canadians and British are deploying military transport aircraft.
In their memorandum they agreed that an integrated European Aerospace and Defence Company should embrace civil, military transport and combat aircraft as well as helicopters, space launchers and guided weapons.
The Pentagon deferred on a decision to provide the Afghans with five used C-130 military transport planes and light attack aircraft.
She would also appreciate its importance in the projection of American power in Asia and beyond as much of the nation's long-range transport aircraft supplying our military operations around the world transit through Elmendorf.
Despite defence-spending increases, French military types complain about the lack of transport aircraft and the shoddy state of the helicopter fleet.
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But following what a DfID spokesman called "a day of intense activity searching for an alternative aircraft", a C17 military transport aeroplane was located which is expected to leave from RAF Brize Norton on Friday night.
The 330 military personnel comprise 200 soldiers going to West African nations, 40 military advisers to Mali, and 90 support crew for a C-17 transport aircraft and a Sentinel R1 surveillance plane.
BBC: Mali crisis: 330 UK military personnel sent to West Africa
In other defence news, an editorial in bilingual Global Times hails China's successful test flight of its first heavy transport aircraft Y-20 as an "important step forward" in military modernisation.
Two RAF C17 aircraft loaned to the French mission in Mali have been used to transport military equipment and service personnel.
BBC: UK 'may offer further support to French troops in Mali'
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