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Friday, November 12, 2010

Boeing refits old Seattle plant for P-8 aircraft production

P-8A PoseidonA Seattle building in which Boeing once churned out B-29 Superfortress bombers and early 737 airliners is now combining those defense and 737 heritages, serving as the production facility for Boeing's Next-Generation 737-based P-8 program.

"Six months ago this was an abandoned warehouse," Chuck Dabundo, Boeing vice president and manager of the company's P-8A Poseidon program, said in formally opening the plant Thursday. "We've gone full circle with bringing the 737 conversion back into this space."

The Navy is slated to buy 117 P-8As to replace the Lockheed Electra-based P-3 Orion, a turboprop aircraft that has been the Navy's frontline, land-based maritime patrol aircraft since the 1960s, taking on anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

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