Aircraft need replacement engines, spare parts, maintenance depots, and supply links around the world. Admiralty orders could combine aircraft requirements with motor launches and torpedo boats, giving naval buyers a larger market to offer suppliers. Different accounting methods also affected the apparent availability of engines: RFC figures could count components in ways that suggested a surplus, while RNAS calculations included maintenance and replacement needs. Both services could sincerely report different totals because their systems counted different things.
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Why naval logistics changes aircraft procurement
Keeping naval aviation inside the Admiralty preserves accounting, spares, and bulk-purchasing practices that can sustain aircraft and engine production more effectively.