The Boeing P-8I for India successfully completed its final design review (FDR) on July 16, clearing the way for the manufacture of the first 737 based P-8I to begin.
The FDR saw the designs for the aircraft’s radar, communications, navigation, mission computing, acoustics, sensors, and ground and test support equipment locked in, as well as for the aircraft itself.
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“For P-8I, we are incorporating not only India-unique design features, but also India built subsystems, so this agreement that the design addresses all customer requirements is a huge milestone,” Leland Wight, Boeing’s P-8I program manager said in a statement. “It also leads us to the program’s next stage: We are on track to start fabricating the P-8I’s empennage section before the end of this year.”
The first P-8I is due to be delivered to India in 2013.
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