The first MMF aircraft took off for the first time into the clear and cold skies of Madrid on Wednesday 28 November 2018. This is the first MMF airplane fully configured as an MRTT first flight, after completion of the production phase at the Airbus DS facilities in Getafe.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has received the USA Aviation Week magazine laureate prize for its efforts in leading the creation of a Multinational Fleet of eight Airbus A330 MRTT tanker/transports to improve the interoperability and boost the capability of European air forces.

May 2018 saw the ESSOR Programme Division actively contribute to two important events in parallel: a "PESCO Workshop” organised  France and Italy in Paris on 24 and 25 May, and the Wireless Innovation Forum in Madrid, on 23 and 24 May.

On 21-23 November 2016, representatives of the OCCAR-EA MMF Programme Division participated in the Airbus MRTT Users Group (AMUG) 2016.