Posted: 7:56 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016
WRIGHT-PATT
Air Force concerned over delays in tanker contract
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE —
The Air Force expects to decide by the end of the year what actions aerospace giant Boeing may face for missing a delivery date for the first 18 new aerial tankers bought in generations.
The KC-46 Pegasus, based on the commercial version of the Boeing 767, is due to land in the Air Force fleet in January 2018, a delay of five months from a previously scheduled date of August 2017.
In an interview with this newspaper about the high-profile contract, the program executive officer of the Tanker Directorate at Wright-Patterson in charge of the KC-46 program said the Air Force takes the schedule slip “very seriously” as it targets a one-for-one replacement of the entire tanker fleet of 455 fuel-hauling jets plus two dozen more.
“It’s very important the KC-46 schedule delays resolve themselves,” Brig. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson said. “We’re pushing very hard.”
Of the transition to the new tanker, Rich
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