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A review by accounting firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton forecasts a price tag of $95.2-million per aircraft if acquisition of the first round of F-35 jets goes ahead in 2017 under a timetable that still exists despite the government’s temporary suspension of the program last year.
PARLIAMENT HILL—A review of Department of National Defence forecasts reveals a fleet of 65 F-35 stealth jet fighters will cost Canada an estimated $95 million-per airplane in acquisition alone—$20-million more per airplane than the government projected only three years ago. Although the review of the National Defence figures says the current average cost of the Lockheed Martin fighters still in early production and testing stages in the U.S. is an average of $88.5 million—the figure most often cited
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