Could the Kingdom be the adaptable jet's
first customer?
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
As Saudi Arabia continues its multi-billion dollar international arms shopping spree, it appears to have begun evaluating
Textron AirLand’s Scorpion light attack jet. The firm has previously said
that the Kingdom is interested in the aircraft, but growing American political
opposition to its brutal and protracted intervention in Yemen might slow
or scuttle actual purchases.
Online flight tracking websites caught one of the
Scorpion demonstrators, which presently carries the U.S. civil registration
code N532TX, flying from the Royal Saudi Air Force’s King
Faisal Air Base (KFAB), which is co-located with the Tabuk Regional
Airport, earlier in November 2017. Though the two facilities share a larger
complex, KFAB uses an entirely separate runway. Our friends at FlightGlobal,
who noticed the jet zipping around in the desert, reported that Textron will almost certainly bring the
twin engine jet to the annual Dubai Air Show in the neighboring United Arab
Emirates, which starts on Nov. 12, 2017…….Read rest of article: HERE
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