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New Zealand: A-4 and MB-339 sold to US company

Wellington, New Zealand - It would have been unveiled by Minister of Defence after deciding in 2001 to retire all the fix-winged aerial vehicles from service

New Zealand’s Administration decided to retire the Air Force’s fix-winged aircraft from service four years ago. Actually, it had been scheduled that all the A-4 Skyhawk attack(close support airplanes and the MB-339 trainers had to be withdrawn from operations in order to lower defence costs and devote funds to other programmes for homeland security. Airplanes have been sold to a US private company, dis...

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Rome, Italy, 09/12/2005 15:27
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