{"id":11614,"date":"2011-06-20T01:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T06:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T07:33:32","slug":"usafa-receives-new-training-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/usafa-receives-new-training-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Receives New Training Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/force-120071-air-academy.html\">purchased new training aircraft<\/a> to replace those it has leased for more than a decade.\u00a0 USAFA has not purchased a training fleet since the ill-fated T-3A <em>Firefly <\/em>killed 3 cadets and 3 officers from 1995 to 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The Cirrus T-53A is a single engine propeller driven aircraft and will be used in USAFA&#8217;s flight training program.\u00a0 The T-53 acquisition will run\u00a0$6.1M for the fleet of 25.\u00a0 The local article also notes the aircraft is equipped with a whole-aircraft parachute.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft will be evaluated by test pilots from Edwards Air Force base before its use as a cadet trainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy has purchased new training aircraft to replace those it has leased for more than a decade.\u00a0 USAFA has not purchased a training fleet since the ill-fated T-3A Firefly killed 3 cadets and 3 officers from 1995 to 1997. The Cirrus T-53A is a single engine propeller driven aircraft and will be used in USAFA&#8217;s flight [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,5285,2,32,1855,65],"class_list":["post-11614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-t-53","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}