Aviation Week

Bell Expected To Find New FLRAA Fuselage Supplier After Boeing's Spirit Takeover

FARNBOROUGH—Following the closure of Boeing’s acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, Bell is expected to look elsewhere for aerostructures work on its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft for the U.S. Army.
Flightglobal

Bell drops Spirit AeroSystems as supplier of FLRAA fuselages

Rotorcraft manufacturer Bell has dropped key supplier Spirit AeroSystems from its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) programme, which aims to deliver a next-generation tiltrotor to the US Army ...
Wichita Eagle

Bell Helicopter chooses Spirit to build fuselages in aircraft for Army

Spirit AeroSystems is ramping up its work in the defense industry following Bell Helicopter’s announcement Monday that it selected Spirit to build the fuselage of a prototype tilt-rotor aircraft for ...
The Business Journals

Not going anywhere: Bell Textron opts to keep FLRAA fuselage assembly in Wichita

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Bell Textron recently took over ...
The Business Journals

Bell Textron's FLRAA fuselage assembly work in Wichita gets closer to launch

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Last fall, Bell Textron took ...
KEYT

Key Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems is laying off 450 after production of troubled 737s slows

A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers. That’s because production has slowed down ever since a panel flew off one of those ...