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DoE Takes Delivery of New Radiation Monitoring Aircraft

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DoE Takes Delivery of New Radiation Monitoring Aircraft
One of three custom-modified King Air 350ER aircraft that the Department of Energy took delivery of in 2019 for its Aerial Measuring System fleet. The fleet searches for traces of potentially harmful radiation at the sites of radiological accidents, or potential terrorism targets. Credit: Dan Leone for Defense Daily

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — The Department of Energy took delivery of three new radiation monitoring aircraft recently and put them on display here Wednesday at one of two home bases for the airborne leg of the agency’s counterterrorism office. The three new King Air 350ER airplanes provided by Textron Aviation [TXT] of Wichita, Kan., will replace three 1980s-vintage aircraft the agency's semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) used for decades to scan for traces of potentially harmful radiation. Textron’s…

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