Redesigned T-7A canopy completes early safety testing, delays full assembly testing until early 2024

By Apurva Minchekar / June 27, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Boeing's T-7A trainer aircraft completed early safety testing of its redesigned canopy at the component level, but the fully assembled system testing has been delayed until early 2024 due to parts unavailability, according to an Air Force spokeswoman. On June 8, the Government Accountability Office found that although the program concluded the canopy-fracturing system as mature, Air Force data from 2021 testing indicated that the aircraft did not fulfill the airworthiness requirements. The Air Force spokeswoman told Inside Defense...

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