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The President’s Helicopter: How Ruto’s Aviation Empire Lands a Historic Airbus Milestone While His Government Writes the Tax Code
Rotorjet Aviation, affiliated with President William Ruto’s Kwae Island Development Limited, took delivery on May 12, 2026, of the 1,000th Airbus H130 ever built. The acquisition drops into a political petri dish of breathtaking proportions: a sitting head of state expanding a helicopter fleet that has previously been chartered to government agencies he now commands, as his own Finance Bill proposes sweeping tax exemptions for aviation parts.