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AH-64E Apache Version 6.5 First Flight Planned For Late 2023, Won’t Use ITEP Engine

AH-64E Apache Version 6.5 First Flight Planned For Late 2023, Won’t Use ITEP Engine
AH 64E ground to air shoot in the Arizona desert (Photo: Boeing)

RIDLEY PARK, Pa. – Boeing [BA] has said the first flight of the latest version of the Apache attack helicopter, the AH-64E Version 6.5, will happen at the end of the year and that there is no plan for the upgraded aircraft to fly with the Army’s new General Electric Aviation [GE]-built T901 helicopter engine. K.J. Jolivette, Boeing’s vice president and general manager for vertical lift, confirmed to Defense Daily “there is not” a plan for the AH-64E Version 6.5 to be…

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