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Old March 10th 08, 02:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default F-117 to be retired this year

Darkwing wrote:
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123088771

Doesn't seem like they have been around long enough to retire them.



According to the article 27 years and I'd bet they main reason is they
probably need to be re-skinned in order to maintain their stealth. And
that would probably cost more now than building them did when they were
new.