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Canadian Air Force takes parts from museum to fix ailing aircraft
The Royal Canadian Air Force has quietly turned to an unusual source for spare parts to keep its venerable search-and-rescue airplanes flying: a museum. In July 2012, air force technicians raided an old Hercules airplane that is on display at the National Air Force Museum of Canada because they needed navigational equipment for a similar aircraft still in use. (ottawacitizen.com) Más...Reminds me of "back in the day" when the Brits got into that scrape with the Argentinians over the Falkland Islands. Seemed they were out of receiver probes for some of their Vulcans so they came to the 8th Air Force Museum here at Barksdale AFB and took the refueling probe off the Vulcan on display.
They took parts off a display F-105 at Lackland AFB to fix an ANG Thud back in the early 80s. They've been pulling parts out of the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan to keep B-52s and other planes flying since just about forever. This is nothing new.
The writer neglected to mention 10+ C-130J-30's that Canada has; most less than 5 years old.
Old news. I "borrowed" a wing tip from a static display USAF aircraft back in 1984 to repair a Navy T-39....and yes, I paid them back....
http://www.thefrantics.com/site/ywd_frantic_world_ltd_/assets/audio_video/The_Frantics-Army_Careers.mp3