The U.S. Navy has awarded Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office a $309.5 million contract to produce additional CMV-22B Osprey aircraft, according to the U.S. Department of Defense contract announcements. The contract modification award from Naval Air Systems Command enables the company to provides manufacture and delivery of four CMV-22B multi-engine, dual-piloted, self-deployable, medium lift, vertical takeoff […]

Bell Textron, which manufactures helicopters, has announced that it had got an order for delivering six Bell 505 aircraft to the Jamaica Defense Force (JDF). According to a company statement, the newly acquired Bell 505s will be configured to support Public Safety missions in country and be used by the Force’s Caribbean Military Aviation School […]

The Textron division Bell Textron Inc., showed off what the V-280 Valor tilt-rotor high-speed aircraft can do, being developed as part of the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) selection program. In a video, published on the Bell’s YouTube channel on Dec 17, was demonstrated two new capabilities that highlight the Bell V-280 Valor’s ability to execute […]

U.S. military’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday it planned to sell Guyana four utility helicopters for $256-million. The U.S. State Department has cleared a possible $256 million foreign military sale of two Bell 412EPi and two Bell 429 helicopters to Guyana. According to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the complete package includes helicopters […]

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