The House Appropriations Committee (HAC)-passed fiscal year 2015 defense appropriations bill supports the Army aviation restructure initiative--to a point--and that point is: forget getting rid of any of the 182 TH-67 training aircraft in the Army inventory until a comprehensive report is submitted on the divestiture impact on the industrial base. The Army’s plan to retire the current TH-67 Creek aircraft, produced by Bell Helicopter [TXT] has left HAC “extremely concerned about the impact on the rotary wing industrial…
