
Bell [TXT] said on Wednesday it will keep production of the fuselage for the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) in Wichita, Kansas, after taking on the assembly work in-house. Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems [SPR] was the original manufacturer of the FLRAA fuselage, before Bell decided to take on the production following Boeing’s [BA] pending $8.3 billion acquisition of Spirit that is expected to close in mid-2025. "As Bell prepares for the next stage of FLRAA’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development…