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Yearly Production Capacity Of More Than 100 AE 1107F Engines For MV-75, Rolls-Royce Says

Frank Wolfe

Sunday, August 30th, 2026

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Yearly Production Capacity Of More Than 100 AE 1107F Engines For MV-75, Rolls-Royce Says

Pictured is a U.S. Army photo of Army aviators participating in a familiarization flight from Fort Rucker, Ala. on a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey with members of the Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 (VMMT-204) on July 24, 2025.

INDIANAPOLIS--Rolls-Royce plans to deliver two AE 1107F engines for the first of six prototype Bell [TX] MV-75 Cheyenne II tiltrotors for the Army by the end of the year in support of flight testing, as the engine maker prepares to start that engine testing in one of four new test cells here funded as part of a nearly $1 billion company investment in its Indianapolis site in the last decade. "Based on the information that Bell and the Army have…

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