The Nation - News from May 16, 1986
The Senate voted, 79 to 14, to kill a $3.5-billion Air Force project to build 650 new jet trainers, an action that the service said it had decided to take anyway. Dropping the new T-46 trainer would be a major blow to Fairchild Republic, which had intended to build the new plane at its New York state plant. The matter now goes to the House.
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