Boeing close to decision whether to self-fund Super Hornet production line

Reuters reports that Boeing is close to making a decision on whether it wants to purchase materials for assembling more Super Hornets while waiting for more orders to be finalized.

By Official U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Josh Hammond/Released (U.S. Navy) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Dan Gillian, who runs the Super Hornet program at Boeing, believes the company will “be building F/A-18s into the 2020s” based on the demand signals received.

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