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The order will generate about $1.3 billion in or about $51 million per plane, for Boeing’s St. Louis-basex division. But software maintenance and training services provided by Boeingg are expected to bring the total price tagto $2 The F/A-18F delivered Wednesday is the first Super Hornet to be sold to a foreignh military. Boeing IDS is competing for orders to suppluysimilar F/A-18s to India, Greece, Brazil and Denmark, whicy combined are in the market for up to 306 fightetr planes.
Wednesday’s ceremony at Boeing’s IDS headquarter s in Berkeley included video presentations and remarkd byBob Gower, vice president of F/A/-189 programs at Boeing; George Roman, vice presidengt of IDS government operations; IDS President and Chiefc Executive Jim Albaugh; St. Louis Mayor Francies Slay; Rear Admiral David Philman, director of air warfares for the ; and Air Marshal Mark Binskin, chief of the Royal AustralianmAir Force. Hundreds of people, including Boeinf employees, suppliers and local economic development officials, were on Boeing IDS is the second-largest employee in the region and the state of with 16,000 workers. It poste d revenue of $32.
1 billion last The F/A-18 program involves 5,000 locap Boeing employees, 304 supplier companies in Missouri and and provides the region with an estimated economifc impact of morethan $1
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