Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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Mark Huber

The U.S. Air Force plans to fly its Gulfstreams for a while longer. On January 27,&nbsp;the Air Force announced that Gulfstream Aerospace had been awarded a variety of contract modifications to support the service’s fleet of C-20 and C-37 (Gulfstream III, IV, V, and 550) models. The modifications have a combined value of $124 million.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The awards include&nbsp;an $87 million modification for contract logistics support services, bringing the cumulative value of the contract to $594 million,&nbsp;and $37 million for C-20 and C-37 engineering support contract services, bringing the cumulative value of that contract to $612 million. All work will be completed by Jan.&nbsp;31, 2025, and Jan.&nbsp;31, 2031, respectively. It will be performed in Savannah, Georgia; at Joint Base Andrews in&nbsp;Maryland; Hickam Air Force Base in&nbsp;Hawaii; and Ramstein Air Base in&nbsp;Germany. It is being contracted by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at&nbsp;Tinker Air Force Base in&nbsp;Oklahoma.&nbsp;
The comparatively newer C-37As (GV) and C-37Bs (G550) are based at the 89th Airlift Wing, 99th Airlift Squadron, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland; the 15th Airlift Wing, 65th Airlift Squadron at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii; and the 86th Airlift Wing, 76th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

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