
RIDLEY PARK, Pa. --Boeing [BA] on Thursday officially opened a new $115 million facility for the V-22 Osprey that will serve as the home for the Marine Corps’ effort to improve readiness of the tiltrotor aircraft by upgrading platforms to a common Block C configuration. The new factory, located just outside of Philadelphia, will also house fuselage production for new V-22’s for the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force as well as current international partner Japan. Boeing, which builds the…