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Air Force Issues Final RFP to Procure Several Light Attack Aircraft By Year’s End

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Air Force Issues Final RFP to Procure Several Light Attack Aircraft By Year’s End
A Textron AT-6 Wolverine turboprop aircraft.

The Air Force released a final request for proposals Oct. 24 to procure no more than six light attack aircraft by the end of the year. The service has planned to buy four to six Textron Aviation [TXT] AT-6 Wolverine and Sierra Nevada Corp. [SNC]/Embraer Defense & Security A-29 Super Tucano aircraft since early 2019. It launched the light attack experiment – also known as OA-X – in 2017 by testing four off-the-shelf aircraft, including the A-29 and AT-6, at…

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