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Roper: Air Force Close to Resuming KC-46 Deliveries

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

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Roper: Air Force Close to Resuming KC-46 Deliveries

A KC-46A tanker takes off from Boeing Field outside Seattle en route to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, Jan. 31, 2019. The program suffered $275 million in charges in the fourth quarter of 2020. Photo: Boeing

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Air Force is ready to resume deliveries of its new KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft as soon as Boeing [BA] completes the latest and most expansive sweep of foreign object debris (FOD) inspections, the service’s acquisition chief said April 9. The service halted deliveries earlier this month for the second time in two months after FOD was discovered on the KC-46 production line (Defense Daily, April 2). In a meeting with reporters on the sidelines…

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