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Boeing Receives More Than $3.1 Billion in Contracts for KC-46 Tanker

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

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Boeing Receives More Than $3.1 Billion in Contracts for KC-46 Tanker

An airman with the 374th Maintenance Squadron marshals a Boeing KC-46A Pegasus at Yokota Air Base, Japan on Oct. 23, 2018--the first time a KC-46A landed in Japan (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Boeing [BA] has received two contracts for its KC-46A tanker, DoD said on Aug. 31. In the first such contract, the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing more than $2.2 billion for 15 KC-46A Pegasus tankers under production lot 8. Work on the tankers in Seattle is to wrap up by Nov. 30, 2025. Under the second contract, Boeing is to build four such tankers by the end of 2026 for Israel for more than $927 million. "This contract is also…

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