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Layton • Utah's Hill Air Force Base is adding flight simulators and ammunition bunkers after being chosen as an operational base for a fleet of new fighter jets.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has awarded nearly $6 million in contracts for the construction work at the base.
The U.S. Air Force announced on Dec. 3 it selected Hill as the base for 72 of the fighter jets.
The corps says one $4 million contract will renovate and expand a building that houses flight simulators for pilot training.
Four more simulators will be added for the new F-35 jets. The construction work was awarded to Ogden's Creative Times Inc.
Another $2 million contract will build earth-covered bunkers for aircraft munitions. That job was won by Zumwalt Construction Inc., of Fresno, Calif.
The Associated Press