Bell Wins $461M for 28 H-1 Helicopters

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $461,142,760 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-13-C-0023) to definitize the manufacture and delivery of 12 Lot 13 UH-1Y aircraft; 16 Lot 13 AH-1Z aircraft, and 16 auxiliary fuel kits.
Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (60 percent); and Amarillo, Texas (40 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2019.
Fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $461,142,760 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The above contract works out to an average of $31.6 million for each of these 28 helicopters, which are modernized variants of the Vietnam-era Huey and Cobra helicopters being procured only by the Marine Corps.)
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