STATUS OF TITLE TO OXCART AND KEDLOCK AIRCRAFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00980R000600050036-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2005
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 20, 1964
• Content Type: MF

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.tEMORANDUM FOIE: Deputy Director (Science and Technology)
Status of Title to OXCART and KKDLOCK
Aircraft
1964
response to your verbal request of the evening of 19 February,
there is attached herewith a brief statement describing the ownership
and acceptance machinery for OXCART and KEDLOCK aircraft.
I have *rally passed this on to Mr. Keeney at the White lase
and he in turn has requested that a c" y of this be available for the
1400 meeting in the white Hose this date. I shosid, therefore,
like to ask you to deliver Mr. Keeney's copy to him.
JAMES A. CUr4NI
Acting Assistant Director
(Special Activities)
cc. DIKA
I Mr. Spurgeon Keeney
Distribution:
#1-DD/S&T
#2-DDCI
#3-Spurgeon Keeney (White House)
#4-DAD/OSA
#5-Chrono
#6-RB/OSA
O/DAD/ OSA /JA Cunningham /rncm(20 Feb 64)
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OXCART AND KEDLOCK AIRCRAFT, VESTING OF TITLE
1 . Title to these, aircraft, having been procured under fixed price
redeterminable type contracts, vests "constructively" in the Government upon
roll-out from the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California. This conditional
acceptance is subject to contractor's continuing with all necessary additional
work at the test area, including the flight test program, and demonstration of
full specification performance prior to final acceptance.
Z. The f. o. b. , Burbank, conditional acceptance and passage of "con-
structive" title was provided contractually primarily to shift the in-transit
loss-or-damage burden from the contractor to the Government, as a self-insurer?
Because of the high-dollar value of the aircraft, the contractor would not
assume full responsibility without commercial carrier insurance coverage.
Because of security, it was impossible to make factual disclosures to an insur-
ance carrier for them to assess risk factors involved. Furthermore, the risk
of loss or damage appeared to be more properly coverable by the Government's
self-insurance policy.
3. Final acceptance by the Government of each aircraft will be made
after completion of flight test and specification demonstration at the test site.
No aircraft to date has been finally accepted.
4. Even though supervisory control of certain aircraft has been assumed
by the Detachment Commander at the test area, this has been for purposes of
proceeding with Government-pilot training and equipment familiarization pro-
grams and has been subject to the contractor's continued maintenance, retrofit,
IRAN, and ultimate aircraft specification performance demonstration.
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 P Tsars AL n C O N P / SECRET
Deputy Director for Support
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
t Deputy Assistant Director
(Special Activities)
RICU71NG AND I EC 0 D SHEE
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OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
INITIALS to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
I believe that. we have taken a25X1
necessary action to see that the
project described in your memo of
12 December 1963
will receive first priority on actions
placed with the Procurement Division,
Office of Logistics. In this connec-
t.ion ioa 5c note
to >il?...:ch and Section Chiefs,
dated 13 _,ccrnber 1963, copy
attached.
avc iaso as:ed the Director of
Logistics to notify me of any case
of delay or inability to meet
deadlines.
SECRET ^ COQHDEEJT!AL
Atts:
Att'1: Memo dtd 12 Dec 63 to D/L
f:n DAD/SA, subj: Procure-
ment iciion .in Su,-Tort 2O~X1
P reject OXCART s 1, 2,
3, 5 0
Branches and Sectic,i.s, fm
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Requisitions of r.-une
Importance fm the Office of
Special Activities, DD/S h'i,