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From: jabusch@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Jabusch)
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Subject: Re: Persian Gulf Combat Aircraft--The A-4 Skyhawk
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:07:21 GMT
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From: jabusch@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Jabusch)
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Um, what do you mean by "produced"?  The Singapore folks are *refitting*
>existing Skyhawks, not building new ones.  The Douglas production line
>closed permanently some time ago, and there has never been any other.

Hmmm.   I can't recall the source - I read too much stuff.  However, I
would swear the most recent article I read on this implied they were
actually producing new airframes.  I, too, understood this to originally
be a refit process.  Perhaps I have read too much into the text.

Now, where was that article?

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