Boeing will form a joint venture with Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries and Alsalam Aircraft Company to open the Saudi Rotorcraft Support Center in Riyadh and Jeddah. Boeing said Wednesday the center will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the sustainment of Saudi Arabia’s commercial and defense helicopters. The country’s rotorcraft fleet includes Boeing’s AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook and AH-6i. Leanne Caret, […] More

Boeing has begun construction work on a new facility in Oklahoma City as part of its plan to move the aircraft sustainment and modernization division’s headquarters there. The company said Wednesday it will open the 290,000-square-foot building in the summer of 2016 to accommodate personnel involved in research and development and engineering operations. Leanne Caret, president […] More

The first test version of the U.S. Air Force's T-7A Red Hawk has arrived at Edwards Air Force Base in California where developmental flight testing for the Boeing-built advanced pilot training aircraft will begin. The aircraft, dubbed APT-2, traveled from Boeing's production facility in St. Louis, Missouri, and made stops at air bases in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona to refuel, the defense contractor said Thursday.

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The U.S. Air Force and Boeing have performed the maiden flight of the service’s first T-7A Red Hawk pilot training aircraft to signal the beginning of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. The digitally designed trainer jet flew for 1 hour and 3 minutes and demonstrated its ability to support fighter and bomber pilot […] More

Boeing has received a four-year, $47.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to gear up for the low-rate initial production of unmanned MQ-25 Stingray refueling tankers. The service branch will use fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement funds for the advance acquisition contract to cover lot one LRIP production and delivery services, the Department of Defense said […] More

Boeing has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $91.5 million contract to manufacture and deliver mission-management processors for the U.S. Air Force’s advanced pilot training aircraft. L3Harris said Tuesday the processor technology for the T-7A Red Hawk jets features sensors and communications capabilities to connect internal and external data networks and link video feed to the aircraft’s […] More

Boeing‘s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has signed a partnership agreement to help Virgin Galactic design and manufacture two spaceship carrier airplanes for use beginning in 2025. Both motherships are intended to carry and release spacecraft at 50,000 feet from the ground, Virgin Galactic said Thursday. Virginia-based Aurora will build the motherships at its West Virginia […] More

Saab has delivered to Boeing the final aft airframe section for the T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft being developed by the latter for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing said Thursday the aft is the final delivery in the T-7A’s engineering and manufacturing development phase and completes the aft fuselages that have been integrated with the […] More

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed the first maneuver demonstration of a test asset for MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueling system on a service aircraft carrier. The company said Monday its T1 test asset aboard the USS George H.W. Bush was remotely directed by using a handheld deck control device to taxi and park […] More

Boeing is adopting digital design processes to build the T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft at its production facility in St. Louis, Defense News reported Friday. “Everything’s in 3D, everything’s digital,” said Paul Niewald, a vice president at Boeing and T-7 program manager. “It’s an authoritative source of data. So our technical publications, our flight manuals, […] More

Saab has delivered an aft airframe section to Boeing that the latter will use for the development of trainer aircraft under a potential 16-year, $9.2 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company is in partnership with Boeing to provide the service branch with up to 475 T-X trainer aircraft and 120 ground-based training […] More

A Boeing and Saab partnership completed the first digital splice of the forward and aft sections of a new trainer aircraft the two companies are building for the U.S. Air Force. Saab assembled the T-7A Red Hawk's aft fuselage in Sweden and delivered the hardware to a Boeing facility in St. Louis, where aircraft mechanics completed the joining process in less than 30 minutes, the Chicago-based aerospace and defense company said Thursday.

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