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Article: Air Force wants to scrap Fireflies
- Article from:
- The Gazette
- Article date:
- January 5, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright 2001 The Gazette. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Air Force officials want to scrap their fleet of T-3A Fireflies
for parts, eliminating a training plane that cost $40 million and six
lives, The Gazette has learned.
The powerful British-made, single-engine, two-seat propeller
planes haven't been flown by cadets since 1997, after three fatal
crashes in Colorado Springs.
Paperwork at the Pentagon suggests three options for getting rid
of the Air Force's 110 T-3As, a Pentagon spokeswoman confirmed
Thursday.
The options are: sell the planes for parts, sell the planes to be
flown by someone else or mothball the fleet at the academy and at the