The Government as such, doesn't have any Hawks. Bombardier made a sweetheart deal with the Liberal government where Bombardier leases the Hawk aircraft from the manufacturer and provides training for our and NATO pilots.
So why not lease some for Snowbird duty, instead of buying used equipment. Funnel some development money into building one of our own planes.
The Czech government has dug themselves a bit of a hole in that they now can't afford all the aircraft they ordered. If the price was right Canada could pick up a couple dozen Czech aircraft for half price or better. I would prefer the Hawk. At this point I don't know what the prices are.
The new ones that Czechs ordered and got. 72 of them were about $42,673,530,000 Koruny which is about $2,546,150,000 CA and they wanted to sell 47 of them. That was in 2005 I think. I have no idea what they want for the used ones. They've been trying to flog some of them ever since.
Czechs Modify 4 Albatross, Tout The Plane to Colombia
I think they are a nice aircraft but I really can't see why we can't use Hawks considering we already have the maintenance crews and whatnot for Hawks.
I think someone or some people in the gov't are on hallucinogens.