- Lockheed Martin is to provide service-life extension kits for six Royal Norwegian Air Force P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft under a $95 million contract. The kits include new outer wings, centre wing lower surfaces, horizontal stabilisers and nacelle components.
- BAE Systems will provide integrated operational support to the 131 Hawk T1/1A trainers in service with the UK Royal Air Force and Royal Navy until 2011 under a new deal worth £74 million ($145 million). The agreement includes the provision of forward and depth maintenance services and spares at three operating bases, in partnership with Babcock Defence Services.
- Raytheon is to produce 60 A-model multi-spectral targeting systems for General Atomics MQ-1 Predator unmanned air vehicles and five B models for MQ-9 Reapers by August 2008 under a $70.4 million US Air Force contract.
- Presidential Airways, a subsidiary of private security firm Blackwater, has received a $14.4 million contract from the USA to provide continued commercial airlift services in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan using short-field EADS Casa C-212s.
- Raytheon Australia is to provide in-service support including maintenance and spare parts for the APG-73 radars that equip the Royal Australian Air Force's Boeing F/A-18s. The company will perform the work at RAAF Williamtown, New South Wales under the nine-year deal.
- The Royal Norwegian Air Force will receive 50 new practice bomb carriers for its Lockheed Martin F-16s this year under a $1.5 million contract with EDO. The deal represents the first sale of EDO MBM Technology's two-station modular advanced lightweight training system.
- GKN Aerospace has received a $3.5 million contract from Hanwha to develop and supply an initial batch of lightweight fuel bladders for the Korea Aerospace Industries-led Korean Helicopter Programme. Production of the bladders will start in the UK next year, ahead of assembly in South Korea from 2009.
Source: Airline Business
