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Air Force

Embraer To Start Light Air Support Assembly In January

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

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Embraer [ERJ] will start assembling its A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft for the Air Force’s Light Air Support (LAS) program in January, according to a Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) official in charge of the program. Sierra Nevada Vice President of Integrated Tactical Solutions for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Taco Gilbert told Defense Daily in November Embraer in January will start assembling avionics and everything other than basic metal components at its facility near Jacksonville, Fla., international airport. Gilbert said…

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