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 60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM-MUTUAL AID SETTLEMENT-MAR. 27, 1946 1543 V AGREEMENT ON LEND.LEASE AIRCRAFT (NON-COMBAT) AND SPARES In accordance with their JOINT STATEMENT REGARDING SETTLE- MENT FOR LEND-LEASE, RECIPROCAL AID, SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY AND CLAIMS, dated December 6, 1945, the Governments of the United Po t P. 64. States and of the United Kingdom have reached agreement as set forth below regarding settlement for certain lend-lease aircraft and spares, of non-combat nature, furnished by the Government of the United States to the Government of the United Kingdom. 1. This Agreement covers the use and disposition of all aircraft of the models listed in the Annex hereto, together with spares for such Pot.p.M0. aircraft, which were transferred by the Government of the United States to the Government of the United Kingdom under lend-lease during the period from March 11, 1941 to September 1, 1945, inclu- sive, and were not destroyed, lost or consumed at the end of that period. 2. This settlement is made in partial consideration of the payment by the Government of the United Kingdom of the net sum of $532,- 000,000 specified in section 3 (b) of the Joint Statement of December 6, 1945, and is final in respect of the aircraft and spares referred to in POt P 154. paragraph 1 hereof, except for the separate payments which may be made in the circumstances indicated in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 hereof. 3. The Government of the United States hereby transfers to the Government of the United Kingdom full title, as of September 2, 1945, to 72 Dakota (C-47) aircraft intended for operation by British civil air lines. 4. The Government of the United States hereby transfers to the Government of the United Kingdom full title, as of September 2, 1945, to 600 Dakota (C-47) aircraft, 25 Expediter (UC-45) aircraft, and 18 Liberator (C-87) transport aircraft, subject only to the condi- tion that, as and when they become surplus to British military re- quirements, they will not be transferred, by sale, loan or otherwise, to third countries (including the Dominions and India) outside the United Kingdom and British Colonial Dependencies without the con- sent and agreement of the Government of the United States. 5. The two Governments will enter into a leasing arrangement, the Leasing arrange- specific terms of which will be hereafter agreed, in respect of 671 Dakota (C-47) aircraft, for a total of 7,213 aircraft months beginning September 2, 1945. Such leasing arrangement shall provide that, upon its termination with respect to any particular aircraft, such aircraft will be returned subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 hereof. It shall also contain appropriate provisions governing the liability of the Government of the United Kingdom in kind or in cash (outside the provisions of section 3 (b) of the Joint Statement of December 6, 1945), for loss of or damage to any aircraft while P'P' 15

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