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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
If they would have had the parts to keep the aircraft in the air, it would have taken normally about 12 months.
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Mike Rounds
Republican · South Dakota

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Rounds discusses delays in aircraft readiness due to parts shortages.

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