If they would have had the parts to keep the aircraft in the air, it would have taken normally about 12 months.
Mike Rounds: “If they would have had the parts to keep the aircraft in the air, it would have taken normally about 12 months.”
On the recordMarch 10, 2015
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Rounds discusses delays in aircraft readiness due to parts shortages.
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