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Old 02-22-2010 | 01:39 PM
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None of the airplanes here will likely get it. The Mustang derivative does not have two seats, the Cessna can't handle dirt operations, the piston plane is a piston plane, and so on. The best airplane is probably the Hawker-Beechcraft Texan AT-6B, and I support that as well. I believe the actual request for proposal is not out yet however, which is why I wanted to put the Cessna 526 up and look at it. Who knows, they may be able to adapt the 526 to dirt strips, armor it up, hang some weapons and install the newer systems, and make it into a modern Dragonfly. I think it should be a fair competition, or better yet simply given to Hawker Beechcraft.

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