Hughes Training has received a $13 million US Navy contract to upgrade the existing Bell Boeing MV-22 operational flight trainer and cockpit-procedures trainer, to match the Osprey tilt-rotor's latest cockpit configuration. The original simulators, built by Hughes Aircraft, were delivered to the US Marine Corps in 1996. The engineering and manufacturing development model represents the cockpit design for production MV-22s. Once upgraded, the training devices will be returned to MCAS New River by June 1999.
Source: Flight International
