Airport utility application removal

the airport utility application is only used to manage Airport WIFI devices or possible other WIFI routers.
Why is it the airport utility  cannot be removed from the Mountain lion system. "Airport Utility App can't be modified or deleted because it is a required by the Mac OS X".
This is very strange as it only functions as a management application for WIFI and is not required to manage the WIFI devices?

Although you cannot remove it.. you can add an older version utility.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. it is very simple.. drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. drill down.. applications utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall 6.1 (now 6.2 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. so just ignore the toyland version.. the plastic hammer.. and start using 5.6.. a real tool.
For screen shots see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

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