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Bell Sees Potential For V-22 Production Beyond 2025

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

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Bell Sees Potential For V-22 Production Beyond 2025

An MV-22 Osprey takes off from the flight deck of the USS Nassau. (Photo by National Museum of the U.S. Navy)

Foreseeing the possibility that the service will find use for the tiltrotor aircraft outside of carrier onboard delivery (COD) missions, Bell [TXT] hopes to extend production of the V-22 Osprey beyond its current multi-year contract with the U.S. Navy. The Bell-Boeing [BA] team that builds the V-22 is slated to produce at least 58 Ospreys for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and the government of Japan. Thirty-nine of those will be the CMV-22B variant with increased fuel capacity and…

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