TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keating,Edward G.
AU  - Snyder,Don
AU  - Dixon,Matthew C.
AU  - Loredo,Elvira N.
ED  - Project Air Force (U.S.).
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Aging aircraft repair-replacement decisions with depot-level capacity as a policy choice variable
SN  - 0833036920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - TL685.3 .A4 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Airplanes, Military
KW  - United States
KW  - Armed forces
KW  - Appropriations and expenditures
KW  - Product life cycle
N1  - "RAND Project Air Force."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Continuing a sequence of RAND Corporation reports considering aging aircraft and the decision whether to repair or to replace them, this report presents a model of the repair-replace decision and data describing the C-5A cargo aircraft. In the report, the authors examine the decision whether to modify or retire the C-5A fleet. They also extend the modeling approach to evaluate prospective investment in additional depot-level capacity. The study's preliminary conclusions are that the C-5A's planned reliability enhancement and re-engining program modification is worthwhile if it occurs soon, as are investments in its depot-level capacity. The U.S. Air Force highly values an available C-5A year. Hence, the model is averse to large-scale queuing and delay in the C-5A maintenance system
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG241/
ER  -