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Boeing | Contracts - Modifications | Helicopters & Rotary | Support & Maintenance | USA

$44.4M for Re-Manufacture of 6 Apache Longbows

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Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. in Mesa, AZ received a $44.4 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for remanufacture of six AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters. Longbows are fairly new, but machines that have seen heavy use in Iraq and Afghanistan and taken the accompanying wear-and-tear, sand, and sometimes small arms damage often need a refurb after coming home.

Work will be performed in Mesa, AZ and is expected to be complete by May 2007. This was a sole source contract initiated on Aug. 27, 2004 by the Army Aviation and Missile Command in Redstone Arsenal, AL (DAAH23-00-C-0124).