Re: [californiadisasters] Firefighting Air Tankers Spread Thin

On 2012-12-12 01:15 AM, Kim Noyes wrote:
> Last week, a law passed giving the Forest Service and the Coast Guard
> priority to surplus C-27Js from the Department of Defense.
>
> This allows the Forest Service to acquire 14 C-27Js to enhance its
> diminished firefighting fleet at no cost to the Air Force or Forest
> Service, according to the Helicopter Association International. The
> C-27Js, manufactured in 2007, would become the newest planes on the
> Forest Service fleet. But over the summer, the Air Force grounded its
> entire C-27Js fleet as a precautionary measure after a mechanical
> failure on one flight.

I hope the transfer of C-27Js is not jeopardized by the US selling part
of it's inventory on the international market:
<http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120227/DEFREG02/302270007/Alenia-Warns-U-S-Over-C-27J-Sales>

It could wind up being a very expensive transfer ... maintenance-wise.

Be safe. Get prepared. Stay ready.

-- Wb sends.

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