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Boeing delivers 2500th AH-64 Apache attack helicopter

Boeing recently delivered its 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter, an E-model Apache for the U.S. Army, from the company’s production line in Mesa, Arizona. The first production AH-64, an A-model Apache, rolled ... Read More...

US Navy test squadrons receive Next-Gen Super Hornet this month

The Navy is welcoming its next-generation multi-mission tactical fighter by taking delivery of the first Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet test jets this month, as part of its continuing effort to improve aircraft ... Read More...

Qatar Emiri Air Force’s first F-15 Advanced Jet completes successful first flight

U.S. Department of Defense awarded Boeing a $6.2 billion contract in 2017 to manufacture 36 F-15 fighter jets for the QEAF

Boeing successfully completed the first flight of the F-15QA fighter, the most advanced version of the jet ever manufactured. Developed for the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF), the jet demonstrated its next-genera... Read More...

Boeing’s Loyal Wingman program achieves “Weight on Wheels” milestone

Boeing Australia recently achieved two more milestones on the Royal Australian Air Force’s Loyal Wingman – Advanced Development Program: weight on wheels and aircraft power on. The development milestones for... Read More...

Boeing delivers first CH-47F Chinook to Royal Netherlands Air Force

This is first of 20 CH-47F Chinooks to be delivered to RNLAF one of eight NATO nations to operate the heavy-lift helicopter

Boeing recently delivered the first CH-47F Chinook with an upgraded cockpit to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), continuing a track record of on-time deliveries to customers. The RNLAF will operate a fle... Read More...

Boeing awarded U.S. Navy contract modification for additional MQ-25 aircraft

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a contract modification for three additional MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling aircraft, bringing the total number of aircraft Boeing is manufacturing to seven. “We’re honored ... Read More...

VC-25B begins modification to create the next “Air Force One”

On February 25th, the VC-25B program began modification on the first of two Boeing 747-8 aircraft that will travel the globe representing the United States of America. VC-25B, the next “Air Force One,” is a pro... Read More...

The new USAF helicopter MH-139 Grey Wolf begins testing

The Air Force’s newest helicopter, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, completed its first combined test flight on Feb. 11. With a Boeing pilot in command, this test flight allowed the Air Force its first in-flight look at ... Read More...

Boeing Australia completes first Loyal Wingman fuselage

The Boeing Australia team recently completed major fuselage structural assembly for the first Loyal Wingman. The aircraft is one of three prototypes that will be developed as a part of the Loyal Wingman – Advan... Read More...

Boeing and US Navy test the ability to link piloted and unmanned EA-18G Growlers

Test show ability of F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler pilots to remotely control fighter and attack platforms from the cockpit

Boeing and the U.S. Navy successfully flew two autonomously controlled EA-18G Growlers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River as unmanned air systems using a third Growler as a mission controller for the other two... Read More...

New Boeing 777X completes successful first flight

The new Boeing 777X jetliner took to the skies today, entering the next phase of its rigorous test program. Based on the popular 777 and with proven technologies from the 787 Dreamliner, the 777X took off in fr... Read More...

US Air Force Global Strike Command establishes new detachment for MH-139 testing

Air Force Global Strike Command will stand up Detachment 7 later this month at Duke Field, Florida, to support testing and evaluation of the command’s new MH-139A helicopter. The MH-139A is the first service... Read More...

CAE opening London Gatwick training centre

CAE inaugurates innovative commercial aviation training Centre in London Gatwick

Continuing their global expansion and investment in Europe, CAE inaugurated their latest aviation training centre in London Gatwick, on the 1st of October, 2019. Equipped with state-of-the-art flight simulators... Read More...

V-22 Osprey fleet surpasses 500000 flight hours

The V-22 fleet of tiltrotor aircraft built by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing has topped the 500,000 flight hour milestone. More than 375 Ospreys logged the hours, including the U.S. Air F... Read More...

Boeing MQ-25A Stingray Unmanned Refueling Aircraft passes first test flight

The world’s first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft designed to provide an aerial refueling capability

The Navy and Boeing successfully completed the first test flight of the MQ-25, the first operational carrier-based unmanned refueling aircraft, Sept. 19 from MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois. The Boein... Read More...

T-7A Red Hawk: USAF reveals name of its new advanced pilot training system from Boeing

The US Air Force’s all-new advanced trainer aircraft, the T-X, has officially been named the T-7A Red Hawk. The name is derived from the Red Tails, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. This historic group was the... Read More...

Boeing opens state-of-the-art V-22 Osprey production facility

Boeing investment accommodates V-22 fuselage production and MV-22 modification program and allows Ospreys to be delivered with higher quality, efficiency and improved safety

Boeing with the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy celebrated the transformation of a 350,000-square-foot facility outside Philadelphia into a modern factory where company employees will build fuse... Read More...

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