Pursuant to the provisions of Letter of Instructions No. 943, dated 17 October 1979, the Philippine Air Force, specifically the 700th Special Mission Wing, is hereby authorized to import free of tariff and customs duty and other requirements of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines aircraft, engines, equipment, machinery, spare parts, aviation gas, fuel and oil, whether crude or refined, and such other articles or supplies for the use of the Philippine Air Force including, but not limited to, supplies and spare parts for use of Presidential Aircrafts PUMA SA33OL, Bell 212 and Fokker F-20 which are operated and maintained by 700th SMW, PAF.

It is hereby reiterated the aforesaid articles and supplies be released immediately from the Bureau of Customs without the necessity of awaiting for the presentation of a statement under oath stating the following:

a) that such articles or supplies are not locally available in reasonable quantity, quality, and price; and

b) That they are necessary for or incidental to the operation of the Philippine Air Force and its other allied activities.

The aforestated sworn statement shall only be submitted within fifteen (15) days after the release of the aforesaid articles end supplies.

The other provisions of Letter of Instructions No. 943 are hereby affirmed and made applicable to all supplies and articles to be imported for use of the aforesaid and other Presidential aircrafts.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5 th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant