NEARLY £1million has been wasted on old planes to be used in the failed Rwanda migrants scheme.
Home Office chiefs splashed out £671,000 on fuselages to be used in training for removals.
Since the controversial scheme was axed, taxpayers face another £268,000 bill for having them kept in storage - by the firm that originally supplied them.
The total bill for just this part of the doomed plan, scrapped by Labour last July, is £939,000.
Three old Airbus fuselages were bought for Border Force officers to practice getting migrants on flights to Africa .
They were set up in a film studio hangar - used for Netflix competition show Squid Game: The Challenge , Batman blockbusters and a Rihanna video.
The hangar at Cardington Airfield, Beds, was hired for training for 15 months until the end of last year at a cost of £6,425,285 - meaning the facility was unused for at least six months.
The plane bodies were briefly used for training but have been kept at Cotswold Airport, Gloucs , since November.
Contract details between the Home Office (Immigration Enforcement Team) and Air Salvage International show the firm is to be paid £268,110 for “removal and storage of modified aircraft fuselages for Use of Force training”;.
Air Salvage boss Mark Gregory said they would be held in storage until the Government found a new location for them.
The Home Office said the storage deal had been “extended”; in November.
