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Old 16th January 2016, 22:03
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Re: A-36 Apache losses over Sicily in July 1943

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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng View Post
Had to look this one up - 500 built at a cost of $49,000 each!

L.
Hello Larry,

It's quite a popular aircraft on this forum, for one reason or another. Frank has shared his statistics on the A-36 and other Mustang versions in two interesting threads, one from 2011 - http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?p=132170 and another from 2014 - http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=38046 .

49 thousand dollars would be at least 2 million in current money. That might seem little comapred to the $108 million cost of a new F-35A, but the Apache wasn't a supersonic stealth fighter with an electronically scanned radar

Warm regards,

Paul
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