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New Zealand Receives First Of Four P-8A Poseidon Aircraft

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

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New Zealand Receives First Of Four P-8A Poseidon Aircraft

New Zealand’s first P-8A Poseidon aircraft delivered during a ceremony in Seattle, Wash. on December 7, 2022. (Photo: Boeing)

Boeing [BA] delivered the first of four P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to New Zealand during a ceremony in Seattle, Wash. New Zealand first signed the contract for the four aircraft in 2018. In 2020, Boeing won a $1.55 billion modification award to build 18 Lot 11 P-8A aircraft for the U.S., New Zealand and South Korea (Defense Daily, March 31, 2020). Boeing announced it started building the first New Zealand P-8A last March at the Spirit AeroSystems facility in…

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