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  2. It Costs Tens of Thousands of Dollars Per Hour to Fly These U ...

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    The Air Force in particular is stuck with the headache of replacing the F-16, which costs $26,927 an hour, with a plane that costs 25 percent more to operate, permanently raising costs. This is ...

  3. Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk - Wikipedia

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    During 2010–2013, costs of flying the RQ-4 fell by more than 50%. In 2010, the cost per flight hour was $40,600, with contractor logistic support making up $25,000 per flight hour of this figure. By mid-2013, cost per flight hour dropped to $18,900, contractor logistic support having dropped to $11,000 per flight hour. This was in part due to ...

  4. Bell UH-1N Twin Huey - Wikipedia

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    The Bell UH-1N Twin Huey is a medium military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Bell Helicopter.It is a member of the extensive Huey family, the initial version was the CUH-1N Twin Huey (later CH-135 Twin Huey), which was first ordered by the Canadian Forces in 1968.

  5. Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey - Wikipedia

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    Of the 458 total planned, 360 are for the USMC, 50 for the USAF, and 48 for the Navy at an average cost of $110 million per aircraft, including development costs. [24] The V-22 had an incremental flyaway cost of $67 million per aircraft in 2008, [ 82 ] The Navy had hoped to shave about $10 million off that cost via a five-year production ...

  6. Bell AH-1Z Viper - Wikipedia

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    On 30 April 2020, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced it had received U.S. State Department approval and notified Congress of a possible sale to the Philippines of either six AH-1Z attack helicopters and related equipment for an estimated cost of $450 million or six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and related equipment for ...

  7. Boeing AH-64 Apache - Wikipedia

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    The steel-composite rotors could not meet the Army specification for a life of 1500 flight hours, and needed replacement after just 146 hours. After six changes to the design, the rotor blade life was extended to 1400 hours by early 1991. [18] As of 2024 the AH-64E is being produced at an economical rate of 82 aircraft a year.

  8. Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion - Wikipedia

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    The CH-53 requires 44 maintenance hours per flight hour. A flight hour costs about $20,000. [29] In 2019, the CH-53E fleet of the USMC achieved one million flight hours since 1981. [23] As of the 2020s, the MH-53 Sea Dragons are still in service as are CH-53 Super Stallions, and during a recent grounding the V-22 Osprey, Sea Stallions saw ...

  9. Beechcraft T-6 Texan II - Wikipedia

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    The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engine turboprop aircraft built by Textron Aviation.A trainer aircraft based on the Pilatus PC-9, the T-6 replaced the United States Air Force's Cessna T-37B Tweet and the United States Navy's T-34C Turbo Mentor during the 2010s.