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On the recordMarch 7, 2012
The cost to refurbish each plane is $20 million, because, essentially, it's not like new carburetors, or, you know, let's clean up the leather seats here.
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Mikulski highlights the high costs and seriousness of refurbishing hurricane research planes.

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