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With the founder aircraft being at least 28 years old, how long can they continue racking up the stresses that aerobatics impose?

Hi Rob, I think that the Reds airframes are rotated through the RAF fleet and carefully hours and ‘g’ managed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they all had replacement wings (so new spars?) by now to see them through their service life. I know at Shawbury we regularly see Hawks in an out of storage.

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