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Australia Approves Acquisition of Boeing CH-47F Chinooks

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Friday, March 5th, 2010

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Boeing [BA] will be producing CH-47F Chinook helicopters for Australia in the near future now that Australia's government has given second pass approval to a project to acquire seven of the helicopters for approximately $666.5 million. "It's good news," Jack Dougherty, Boeing vice president, Program Management Operations Rotorcraft Division, told Defense Daily at the Association of the United States Army Winter Symposium here. "It will be a Foreign Military Sales procurement and, working with the Army, Boeing will submit a…

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