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T-7A Taxi Tests Imminent With Air Force Flight Testing Set To Begin Mid-June

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, May 26th, 2023

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T-7A Taxi Tests Imminent With Air Force Flight Testing Set To Begin Mid-June

The T-7A Advanced Pilot Trainer 2 outside one of Boeing's production facilities in St. Louis. APT 2 is the first engineering and manufacturing development aircraft in the Air Force program. Photo: Cal Biesecker

ST. LOUIS—Boeing [BA] as early as this week is slated to begin taxi tests of its first T-7A trainer aircraft that is in the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the program and will be followed in mid-June with the start of Air Force flight testing, company officials said last week during a media tour of Boeing's defense work here. Boeing test pilots will fly the first EMD T-7A aircraft, called Advanced Pilot Trainer 2, for the Acceptance Test…

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