The performers listed below were previously announced and scheduled to appear at Wings Over Houston 2013 and are currently pending. The sequestration portion of the federal 2011 Budget Control Act mandates $500 billion in across-the-board defense spending cuts during the next 10 years. The federal sequestration mandate has currently reduced the military budgets, forcing a halt to all military appearances and performances at airshows through the end of the current military fiscal year – September 30, 2013. & t6 ^; U6 c# z4 O! W* v+ S 1 G9 P8 ^ z$ A# K* ?1 aIt is not known at this time if any of them will be available to appear by our airshow dates in the new fiscal year starting October 1st. i& l' b1 Y8 `/ f' q/ R3 P. s
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