Boeing can build F-18s as long as jets are purchased consecutively

By Lee Hudson / November 6, 2015 at 11:40 AM
F/A-18E/F manufacturer Boeing could support a Navy request to build additional Super Hornets as long as the service purchases jets in fiscal years 2016, 2017, and 2018, according to a company spokeswoman. The service ordered 15 Growlers in fiscal year 2015 and Boeing will deliver the aircraft through 2017. The Navy in its FY-16 unfunded priorities list to Congress included 12 Super Hornets, Boeing spokeswoman Caroline Hutcheson wrote in a Nov. 5 email to Inside the Navy . “Funding for...

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