Flight International online news 11:30 GMT: Finmeccanica subsidiary Alenia Aeronautica has signed an agreement with Boeing to supply components for its 787 programme.
The initial order, valued at approximately $1.1 billion, is to provide fuselage and tail section components for 150 787 aircraft.
In addition, Alenia Aeronautica's structures laboratory in Pomigliano d'Arco, near Naples, will now also perform static and fatigue testing on the horizontal stabiliser built at Alenia Aeronautica's Foggia facility, and will carry out research and engineering activities.
The company will also run development and production programmes at its Taranto-Grottaglie and Foggia plants.
Finmeccanica said it plans to invest more than $600 million in the 787 programme over the next three years.
It also said the agreement will enable it to strengthen the collaboration with Boeing as well as its presence in the USA, where it will use its facility in Charleston to assemble the fuselage sections of the 787.
Source: Flight International
