Air Force wants to scrap Fireflies From: The Gazette | Date: January 5, 2001| Author: | Copyright 2001 The Gazette. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Air Force officials want to scrap their fleet of T-3A Fireflies for parts, eliminating a training plane that cost $40 million and six lives, The Gazette has learned.

The powerful British-made, single-engine, two-seat propeller planes haven't been flown by cadets since 1997, after three fatal crashes in Colorado Springs.

Paperwork at the Pentagon suggests three options for getting rid of the Air Force's 110 T-3As, a Pentagon spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

The options are: sell the planes for parts, sell the planes to be flown by someone else or mothball the fleet at the academy and at the ...

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