Aging Aircraft Repair-Replacement Decisions with Depot-Level Capacity as a Policy Choice Variable
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: April 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780833036926
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Marketing - Industrial; Business & Economics; Technology & Industrial Arts; United States; Business/Economics; Military Science; General; Political Science / General; Armed forces; Airplanes, Military; Appropriations and expenditures; Product life cycle
First sentence: In earlier work (Keating and Dixon, 2003), we introduced an approach for determining when it is optimal to replace an aging system.
Description: The report presents a model of the repair-replace decision for aging aircraft and data describing the C-5A cargo aircraft. 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 conclusion is that the C-5A's planned reliability enhancement and re-engining program modification is worthwhile if it occurs soon. [JH].