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             United States General Accounting Office
                     Washington, D.C.  20548

                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     EXPECTED AT 8:30 A.M.
                                     THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1986

  130238
                          STATEMENT OF

                 CHARLES S. COTTON, GROUP DIRECTOR

                    RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND

                  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

                           BEFORE THE

                 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

                             OF THE

                HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

                               ON

            DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OVERSIGHT OF AIRLINES

                      WITH MILITARY CONTRACTS



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate this opportunity to appear before this Subcom-

mittee to discuss two bills (H.R. 4014 and H.R. 5027) that would

establish certain safety requirements relating to airlines with

military contracts.  Over the past 18 months we have worked with

the Subcommittee.on Aviation, House Committee on Public Works and

Transportation, and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on

Transportation in evaluating FAA's airline inspection program.

More recently, we have worked with Congressman Charles Bennett on

FAA's surveillance of airlines with military contracts, and with

Senators Jim Sasser and Albert Gore on Deoartment of Defense