REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — The Army’s Future Vertical Lift program took a major step forward as the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA, program entered the next major phase of development when ...

Bell won FLRAA in late 2022. Since the cancellation of FARA earlier this year, it has committed more resources to the programme, with an eye on the possibility it could fulfil many Black Hawk ...

The US Army has granted Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team contracts to speed up the time it ought to take to complete preliminary design reviews for major subsystems and conceptual weapon systems on ...

Following the award of the US Army’s largest helicopter procurement in decades to the Bell V-280, questions remain as to what this means for the US's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition ...

Intelligent power management company Eaton has been selected by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, to design, develop and certify the aerial refueling retractable probe for the U.S. Army’s ...

Bell, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT), on May 20, announced that it had joined the U.S. Army Program Manager FLRAA office to support the demonstration of the FLRAA virtual ...

Spirit AeroSystems built the fuselage for the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft demonstrator. (Spirit AeroSystems) Spirit AeroSystems, which is part of the Bell Textron-led industry team that ...

This story won the 2023 Society for Professional Journalists Dateline Award for breaking news in a newsletter or trade publication. UPDATE - This story has been updated to clarify how the legacy fleet ...

The joint team of Sikorsky and Boeing are challenging the US Army’s decision to award Textron subsidiary Bell the multi-billion dollar contract to produce its new utility lift and troop carrier ...

Credit: Sikorsky/Boeing (left) and Bell. The U.S. Army says it will not pay to keep small industry teams intact to continue working on designs for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) ...

The Sikorsky-Boeing made SB-1 Defiant coaxial demonstrator helicopter flew on March 21, 2019 for the first time at Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida, facility. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin) ...