Boeing, Bell awarded $4.9 billion contract for 99 V-22s
Boeing Co and Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc , have been awarded a modified contract valued at $4.9 billion to build 99 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft through September 2019, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
The contract calls for 92 MV-22 aircraft for the Marine Corps and 7 CV-22 tiltrotor aircraft for the Air Force, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major arms contracts.
(Reporting By Andrea Shalal-Esa)