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No Air Force Jets For Rickenbacker

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 23, 2013 at 6:56 AM EDT

The Pentagon says Central Ohio will not get a base for the U.S. Air Force's next generation of refueling aircraft. Officials have passed over Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base as a home for some of the new KC-46A tanker jets. Base officials had hoped to land the new planes after losing some of its KC-135 fleet to budget cuts.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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