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The AH-64 was named the Apache in late 1981, after the Apache tribe, following the tradition of naming Army helicopters after Native American tribes. It was approved for full-scale production in 1982. [15] In 1983, the first production helicopter was rolled out at Hughes Helicopter's facility at Mesa, Arizona.
The Boeing Company operates a heliport (FAA LID: AZ81) and factory adjacent to Falcon Field, known as the Boeing Mesa Facility. [5] Boeing uses the facility to manufacture and maintain the AH-64 Apache military helicopter .
Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook. Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The headquarters and main rotorcraft factory is in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a series of three contract awards to Boeing , worth a combined $129 million, all relating to the sale of Apache AH-64D attack helicopters to ...
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Mesa is the home of Boeing's sixth largest site where it assembles the Apache Longbow attack helicopter and the A160 Hummingbird unmanned aerial vehicle helicopter. [15] Boeing will test the unmanned helicopter in restricted aerospace near the town of Florence, a short distance south of the East Valley. [15] Boeing has a workforce in Mesa of ...
No sooner had Boeing got the word last week that its sale of 36 Apache attack helicopters to South Korea (for $904 million) was a go, than Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced a similar ...
The Lockheed Martin Arrowhead team outfitted the first eight AH-64D Apache Longbows with the new day/night vision system at The Boeing Company’s Apache production facility in Mesa, Arizona, during 2005. The Arrowhead-equipped Apache helicopters departed for Fort Hood in two flights beginning June 23, and were officially delivered on 30 June 2005.