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Boeing Confident For Super Hornet Production Into the 2020s

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

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Boeing Confident For Super Hornet Production Into the 2020s

International sales of Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jet is helping offset declining domestic revenues. Photo: Boeing.

Boeing [BA] is hopeful that potential Super Hornet orders from the Navy in fiscal years 2017 and 2018 and an expected sale of jets to Kuwait could extend the F/A-18E/F production line until 2020, and its program manager told reporters on Wednesday that he believes the service will need far more new Super Hornets than the 24 to 36 planes it has estimated, further stretching the line.However, the Kuwait deal will be critical in bridging production of fiscal ’17 jet procurement…

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