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Navy’s Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft To Get Multi-Hour Endurance Increase

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Navy’s Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft To Get Multi-Hour Endurance Increase
The first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye equipped with aerial refueling conducts its first flight at St. Augustine, Fla. (Photo Credit: U.S. Navy)

Adding refueling equipment to the U.S. Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is expected to increase the on-station time of the aircraft carrier-based, command-and-control airplane by over 85 percent, according to an industry official.Currently, the E-2D and the older E-2C Hawkeye, both built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], can stay in the air for almost four hours before landing, said Jay Mulhall, the company’s business development director for military aircraft. Giving the E-2D a refueling capability will extend the aircraft’s mission time to…

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