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On 17 December 2020, the 576th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Squadron (576th AMRS) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AZ) re-delivered the last of ten damaged Beechcraft T-1A Jayhawks, serial 93-0623/XL, to Laughlin Air Force Base (TX).
The squadron took on the repairs for ten of the aircraft after 39 of them sustained severe hail damage when a storm swept through Laughlin AFB in February 2016. According to Shawn Clay, the product support manager at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center T-1 System Programme Office, the number of damaged Jayhawks was too large for only one commercial repair facility. Air Force Materiel Command suggested shifting some of the hail damage repair workload to the 309th AMARG.
The AMARG team invested approximately 108,000 thousand man hours into this repair and maintenance programme.
The USAF operates 177 T-1A Jayhawks with the 12th Flying Training Wing at Randolph AFB (TX), the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus AFB (MS), the 71st Flying Training Wing at Vance AFB (OK), the 47th Flying Training Wing at Laughlin AFB (TX), and the 479th Flying Training Group at NAS Pensacola (FL).
Last of ten T-1A Jayhawk re-delivered
Last of ten T-1A Jayhawk re-delivered On 17 December 2020, the 576th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Squadron (576th AMRS) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AZ) re-delivered ...
