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A-10C Thunderbolt II wing replacements


Max89

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Back in 2007 Boeing won a contract to supply around 242 wing replacement sets for the aging A-10 fleet.

 

Does anyone know when the first A-10s with these new wings flew? And if possible, does anyone have a list of serials of the aircraft that got the new wings?

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Right now the number is up in the air; LINK from January 2018 article

 

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The U.S. Air Force is searching for a new company to rebuild wings on the A-10 ground-attack plane after ending an arrangement with Boeing Co., officials said.  The service plans to launch a new competition for the re-winging work and award a contract sometime after Congress appropriates full-year funding for fiscal 2018, which began Oct. 1, they said. (The government is currently running on a short-term funding measure known as a continuing resolution, which lasts through Feb. 8.)

During a speech on Thursday in Washington, D.C., Gen. Mike Holmes, the head of Air Combat Command, touched on the contract with Boeing and the planned future deal.  "The previous contract that we had was with Boeing, and it kind of came to the end of its life for cost and for other reasons," he said. "It was a contract that was no longer cost-effective for Boeing to produce wings under, and there were options there that we weren't sure where we were going to go, and so now we're working through the process of getting another contract."

 

When contacted by Military.com for additional details, Ann Stefanek, a spokeswoman for the Air Force at the Pentagon, confirmed the planned contract will be "a new and open competition."  Boeing has been upgrading A-10 wings for the Air Force since June 2007, according to Cassaundra Bantly, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based company. The contract calls for replacing up to 242 sets of wings, and the company has so far received orders to replace 173, she said.

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2 hours ago, Max89 said:

Good article, thanks.

 

Do we at least know when the first flights with the new wings took place?

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Boeing has been awarded a contract for production of additional replacement wings for the US Air Force’s (USAF) A-10 Thunderbolt II close support aircraft.



Covering production of 56 wings, the $212m order forms part of an approximately $2bn contract secured by the company for production and supply of 242 A-10 replacement-wing sets in June 2007.

The latest contract brings the total number of wings ordered to date by the air force to 173.

 
 

Manufactured at the company’s facility in Macon, Georgia, US, the new wings are designed to replace A-10’s existing wings that are nearing the end of their structural and economic service life.

Additionally the new wings are expected to help USAF save an estimated $1.3bn for the next 30 years, while simultaneously enhancing the aircraft’s mission capability by up to 4%.

The outer wing sections are being manufactured by Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) under a subcontract with Boeing, and are shipped along with support kits to Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in Utah, for installation.

The first A-10 aircraft fitted with the replacement wings were rolled out at Hill AFB in February 2012.  Deliveries of all wings under the original contract are expected to be completed by 2018.

 

Regards,

Murph

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