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Spy plane arrives in Georgia for repair
Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2001
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- A cargo plane carrying the fuselage and other salvageable parts of a Navy spy plane arrived at Dobbins Air Force Base on Thursday, more than three months after the surveillance plane made an emergency landing on China's Hainan island.
Navy officials said the wings and tail of the spy plane will be placed on another plane being housed in a hangar on the base. Lockheed Martin Corp., the manufacturer of the $80 million spy plane, has a repair facility nearby.
The cargo plane ferrying the parts left China on Tuesday.