Boeing has received a $96.7 million US Navy contract for six more T-45 Goshawk advanced trainers, for delivery by September 2004.
BAE Systems Customer Support & Solutions has won an eight year "power by the hour contract" to support the Foxhunter radar in the Panavia Tornado F3. The deal is worth around £75 million ($112 million).
Moravan Aeroplanes has sold 10 Z242L light aircraft to the Mexican navy. Contract value, which includes pilot training, is around CKr80 million ($2.6 million). Deliveries have been concluded.
Goodrich Landing Gear is to support a wide range of US Air Force, Army and Navy fixed-wing aircraft under the 10-year, $495 million "strategic supplier alliance" contract.
Boeing has received a $21.1 million contract to procure 83 Smiths Aerospace open-system warfare management computers to upgrade AV-8Bs and TAV-8Bs operated by the US Marine Corps (53), Italian navy (19) and Spanish navy (11).
Air New Zealand Engineering Services' Safe Air subsidiary is to carry out heavy maintenance on one of four Chilean navy Lockheed Martin P-3 Orions.
Stockholm-based HiQ has received a SKr40 million ($4.3 million) contract for work on Saab JAS 39 Gripen aircraft system trainers for the Swedish air force. A SKr24 million contract for the classroom trainers was placed in March.
Raytheon has signed an agreement with Turkey covering the direct commercial sale of more than 150 vehicle-mounted and 170 air-to-air Stinger missile launchers. The $34 million sale has yet to be approved by US Congress. The launchers will equip the Atilgan and Zipkin low-level air defence systems developed by Turkey's Aselsan, and potentially Bell AH-1Z attack helicopters.
Lockheed Martin is to provide LANTIRN targeting pod upgrades, test equipment and support to Greece under an $8.8 million contract.
Source: Flight International
