On 28 June 2006, Switzerland authorised the export of an unarmed Pilatus PC-9 to Chad, intended exclusively for pilot training. The aircraft was delivered in 2006 and later armed. On 9 January 2008, Le Temps, citing AFP and military sources, reported that a Pilatus aircraft had attacked a rebel camp in Darfur on 7 January. In October 2008, the National Council’s Security Policy Committee found that concrete evidence of combat use existed and that Chad had therefore breached its undertaking on use. According to SECO, Pilatus had fulfilled the supply contract correctly. Switzerland imposed sanctions in April 2008. The case prompted stricter export rules for military training aircraft. An attack by armed PC-7s on a hospital in Abéché in eastern Chad is described for autumn 1987. Before the PC-9 delivered in 2006, Chad already had two Pilatus PC-7s acquired from France. In January 2008, the acquisition was dated to around fifteen years earlier. The Group for a Switzerland without an Army stated at the time that Pilatus mechanics had repaired the aircraft in Chad around a year earlier. This maintenance information was publicly debated in connection with the aircraft’s possible armament and use.