NEW YORK--The Bell-Boeing partnership that produces the V-22 Osprey is confident the first foreign sales of the tiltrotor aircraft will take place next year but would not identify the potential suitors. “We have a number of countries that are extremely interested,” John Rader, the vice president for the Bell-Boeing V-22 program. “I certainly can’t tell you who they are right now.” There are three countries in a top tier of interest that could yield sales in 2013, and there are…
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