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[]sBoeing has finalised a contract to sell 10 C-17 airlifters to the India Air Force, but a key decision looms for the future of the strategic airlifter.
The $1.78 billion contract awarded to Boeing on 2 February completes a three-year negotiation process, but it was not immediately clear if it was the full amount. During US President Barack Obama's visit to India in late 2010, the White House said the value of the 10 aircraft deal was $4.1 billion.
The C-17 is generally priced at around $250 million per aircraft, including four Pratt & Whitney F117 engines.
The US Air Force has stopped buying C-17s after ordering 223 aircraft, with the final 10 added by Congess in the fiscal 2010 budget and ordered only recently.
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As the C-17 programme came to rely on foreign orders, Boeing reduced the production rate to 10 aircraft per year without increasing the unit price.
The company is still marketing the aircraft to new countries. The C-17, for example, made an appearance at the Seoul air show in October. Existing customers, such as the Royal Australian Air Force, have also expressed interest in buying more C-17s.
However, Boeing must decide by May whether to order a new batch of long-lead parts, or begin the slow process of shutting down the C-17's supply chain.
The parts will be purchased by Boeing, with no guarantee that new orders will be placed.
Senator Claire McCaskill, meanwhile, has asked the US Federal Aviation Administration to accelerate the process of certifying a civilan version, reviving the BC-17 concept previously rejected by the commercial freighter industry.
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(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Feb. 2, 2012)
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This photo shows eight C-17 airlifters – two fewer that India will operate after 2014, once its air force receives the ten that were ordered Feb. 2, 2012 from Boeing. (USAF photo) The Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $1,781,413,723 firm-fixed-price contract for a modification is a Foreign Military Sales requirement for the Indian Air Force.
Ten C-17 aircraft will be procured for the IAF.
The location of the performance is Long Beach, Calif. Work is expected to be completed by Jul. 28, 2014.
ASC/WLMK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8614-06-D-2006, DO 0009).
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This contract’s value represents only a fraction of the amount that India is expected to pay for its ten C-17s. The DSCA estimated the cost at $5.8 billion in its April 2010 notification of the sale to Congress, while India’s Cabinet in June 2011 approved the sale as a $4.8 billion project. Boeing announced in June 2011 that India’s Ministry of Defence signed an agreement with the US government to acquire 10 Boeing C-17s, but did not mention a price.)