Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Bell Helicopter has been awarded an order for 11 UH-1Y

Bell Helicopter has been awarded an order for 11 UH-1Y (NSI News Source Info) October 2, 2008: Bell Helicopter has been awarded a $210 million order for 11 UH-1Y (below) and four AH-1Y helicopters, the latest variants of the venerable UH-1 Huey design. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $210,197,171 modification to a previously awarded firm fixed price contract (N00019-06-C-0086) to exercise an option for the procurement of 11 UH-1Y aircraft, four AH-1Z aircraft, including associated technical data. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, (60 percent) and Amarillo, Texas (40 percent), and is expected to be completed in Jan. 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

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