
Despite questions about its future, the Air Force’s light attack experiment is slated to continue as the service plans to procure about six turboprop aircraft in fiscal year 2020 while opening up the experiment to more platforms over the next few years, senior service officials said March 13. The service plans to procure “a small number” of light attack aircraft from an Embraer and Sierra Nevada Corp. [SNC] team and from Textron Aviation [TXT] and begin training with them at…