Lawmaker wants L-3 to pay for damage done to RC-135V

Representative Jackie Speier from the U.S. House Armed Services oversight and investigations subcommittee had written to Secretary of Air Force Deborah James, asking her to L-3 pay for damage caused by a fire to a RC-135V in April.

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JPATS’s 16-year production run to end in nine months

After churning out more than 900 T-6 Texan IIs for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, Beechcraft will deliver the last aircraft under the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) in nine months.

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By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada (USN T-6 Texan IIUploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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