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Delta, The US Military, And MX

Cancidas From Poland, joined Jul 2003, 4112 posts, RR: 13
Posted (9 years 2 months 1 week 18 hours ago) and read 2227 times:

why are the USAF and USN 737s always underging mx in DL's hangars?

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Galaxy5 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2034 posts, RR: 27
Reply 1, posted (9 years 2 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 2096 times:

I suppose because its probably cheaper then to have to train and keep a force of 737 maintainers, its more cost effective to have current work centers do the work.

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L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 2, posted (9 years 2 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 2097 times:

Not unheard of or unsurprising.

C-12's, C-21's, C-23's are amoung the aircraft that I know the military contracts out the mainaince for.

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Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21
Reply 3, posted (9 years 2 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2061 times:

and why wouldn't they?
In the UK they're seriously considering outsourcing all pilot training up to type conversion and gunnery training to a commercial company.
Pilots would be trained by them all the way from primary trainers into the Hawk (or whatever is going to replace it maybe).

A little maintenance work on some VIP transports and crew trainers seems insignificant in comparison...

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Flynavy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (9 years 2 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1934 times:

As the C-40 is a relatively new aircraft in the military's inventory, the knowledge and experience with the airframe is limited, compared to that of the C-9 fleet. I'll be flying transcon on a C-9 or a C-40 this weekend, and I'll see what information I can gather, as to the depth of the maintenance that the USN/USAF outsource to DL.