Canada: Air force raids museum for spare plane parts
Canada's air force has had to take spare parts from a museum to keep its
search-and-rescue aircraft flying, after government promises to buy new planes
never materialised, it's been reported.
Technicians from the Royal Canadian Air Force went to a military base museum
in Trenton, Ontario in 2012 to find navigational equipment for a similar
aircraft that's still in use, The
Ottawa Citizen reports. They got the part from an E-model C-130 Hercules
airplane on display, after getting permission from the museum.
"They sort of called up and said, 'Hey, we have these two INUs (inertial
navigation units) that we can't use. Do you have any on yours?'" museum curator
Kevin Windsor recalls. He says they were lucky the parts were available and
interchangeable, and took only half an hour to remove.
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