Bell Textron will build the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft , or FLRAA, fuselages in Wichita, Kansas, the company announced this week.
The company won the Army’s bid to build FLRAA in late 2022 following a competition in which it and a Sikorsky-Boeing team flew technology demonstrators for several years to evaluate aircraft capabilities and drive out risk to a future program of record.
Bell will use an existing facility near Textron Aviation Defense and plans to start work there “in the next several months,” according to a statement…