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REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland's government is beginning to consider a bid by a private company to base fighter jets at an ex-U.S. air base for hired war game exercises.
Kristjan Moller, the outgoing transport minister, said aviation authorities will prepare to register the Russian-made Sukhoi Flanker planes at the Keflavik air base.
The planes are being bought by ECA Program, a Dutch-based company that provides military training for national armed forces.
A spokesman for FM Service, an Icelandic company tasked to build the hangar for the jets, said Thursday ECA wants to rent the planes to NATO countries and other nations friendly to Iceland for use in aerial war games.
The spokesman declined to be named because FM hasn't yet made an official announcement.
