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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
There have been multiple proposals to refurbish retired OV-10s. Unfortunately it's just about as expensive just to develop a new airplane. I think there are a few foreign nations still operating them.
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Remanufacturing
any aircraft type model series in numbers is a fools errand.
I managed two programs that started out as refurb/reman programs. We ended up building new both times.
It is nearly impossible to estimate a coherent budget aircraft by aircraft. I've tried.
The most expensive component of any reman program is "touch labor", people putting their hands on the aircraft. Like rebuilding an old Porsche, the disassemble, modification and reassemble of aircraft is touch labor intensive and very hard to predict. Building new is a breeze.
The term is "over and aboves" in contracting; what we planned for and what actually occurred from the baseline: That is where reman program go ballistic.