Textron’s Bell subsidiary has selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to help design and develop mission systems for its proposed high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Bell was one of the 11 companies selected by the U.S. Air Force in January to further develop aircraft concepts as part of the AFWERX HSVTOL Concept Challenge, a collaborative effort […] More

A Black Hawk helicopter completed its first unmanned flight with the use of an autonomy technology suite Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, which includes Sikorsky Matrix hardware and software, flew an uninhabited UH-60A aircraft for 30 minutes over Fort Campbell in […] More

The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More

A Textron subsidiary has handed over additional AH-1Z aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps, marking the 100th consecutive on-time delivery of the twin-engine attack helicopter under a production contract with the service branch. Bell Textron started the aircraft delivery almost four years ago and is expected to manufacture the H-1 helicopter series consisting of AH-1Z […] More

Bell Textron is now shifting focus to an upcoming U.S. Army aircraft program of record competition in summer after ending the three-year flight testing of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft. The Textron subsidiary said Thursday that it would start working on the weapons system and subsystem designs of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft candidate. Bell […] More

Bell has offered a glimpse into a new facility in Fort Worth, Texas, where the Textron subsidiary will create technologies necessary for the production of tiltrotor aircraft for the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program and other military helicopter offerings.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary has awarded contracts to Rolls-Royce and aerospace technology manufacturer Astronics to provide propulsion and power generation systems to support Bell’s bid for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.

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A joint venture of Boeing and Textron's Bell subsidiary delivered an CMV-22B aircraft for operational use by the U.S. Navy's Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30.

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A team that includes Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has reached a milestone for the SB-1 Defiant helicopter that serves as its bid for a U.S. Army program, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday.

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A partnership between Boeing and Textron's Bell subsidiary has completed delivery of its milestone 400th V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, a joint service multirole combat aircraft designed to combine a helicopter's vertical performance with a fixed-wing platform's speed and range.

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A tiltrotor aircraft built by Textron’s Bell subsidiary has completed its first autonomous flight test at the company’s facility in Arlington, Va., Defense News reported Thursday.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary plans to use a Pratt & Whitney-built helicopter engine as auxiliary power unit for its proposed helicopter design for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, Vertical Magazine reported Tuesday.

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