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A Year In, Boeing Hitting Its Targets On T-7A Development

A Year In, Boeing Hitting Its Targets On T-7A Development
Boeing-Saab T-7A test aircraft shown with drop-down access panels open. Photo: Boeing

ST. LOUIS—Boeing [BA] continues to buy down risk and get through key development milestones with the Air Force’s new T-7A pilot training system and the company and its teammate Saab are aiming to start production of the first test aircraft later in 2020 under the development contract, Boeing officials said here on Monday. Boeing in September 2018 won a $9.2 billion contract to develop and produce the Air Force T-X pilot trainer, which is now called the T-7A Red Hawk,…

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