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Boeing To Provide P-8 Maintenance Training Systems For Australia

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

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Boeing To Provide P-8 Maintenance Training Systems For Australia

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon. (Photo: Boeing)

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) chose Boeing [BA] to provide P-8A Poseidon maintenance training devices, the company said Wednesday.The RAAF virtual trainers were purchased through the U.S. Navy and RAAF Cooperative Program to be used to train P-8A maintenance personnel, beginning in early 2018. The maintenance training devices provide interactive, high-fidelity simulations based on actual mission systems software while hardware-based trainers are full-scale replicas of aircraft components, Boeing said.This is the company’s first international P-8 maintenance training order, with…

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