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Bell: V-280 Built From Scratch As Production-Ready Aircraft

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

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Bell: V-280 Built From Scratch As Production-Ready Aircraft

The V-280 Valor prototype on the flight line at Bell's Amarillo, Texas, manufacturing facility. (Photo by Dan Parsons)

Call it a prototype or an experimental aircraft, but with the V-280 Valor, Bell is offering the Army a vertical lift platform it can take almost directly into production, according to company officials.“This is meant to be a production aircraft,” Scott Drennan, director of innovation at Bell, said June 25 at the annual expo of the American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics in Atlanta. “Call it a prototype, a demonstrator, a rapid development aircraft, let’s say — because it’s a…

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