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Saab Commits To U.S. Production Facility If Boeing Team Wins Trainer Contract

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Sweden’s Saab AB said on Sept. 18 that if the Boeing [BA] team wins the U.S. Air Force’s multi-billion dollar contract to develop and build the T-X trainer aircraft, it will open a manufacturing and assembly facility in the U.S.Hakan Buskhe, president and CEO of Saab, said the company is looking at three options if it and teammate Boeing win T-X, which is slated for a decision in 2017. One option is establishing a new production facility, he said at the Air Force Association’s…

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