Bell Textron announces that Wichita will retain its military aircraft manufacturing site

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Bell Textron has announced that it will retain Wichita as the fuselage assembly location for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA).

Assembly will take place at the Beech Field Facility on Textron Aviation’s East Campus in Wichita, near the Textron Aviation Defense location. Bell Textron plans to begin operations at the plant in the coming months.

“As Bell prepares for the next phase of FLRAA’s engineering and manufacturing development phase, we are committed to investing in advanced manufacturing to ensure we deliver exceptional performance at an affordable price for our customer,” said Bell CEO and President Lisa Atherton. rich history with both the state of Kansas and the city of Wichita, and we are proud to deepen that relationship as we establish this new facility.”

In addition to production of the FLRAA fuselage at the newly established Bell Wichita factory, support work will take place at several of Bell’s advanced manufacturing facilities in Texas, including Bell’s Advanced Composite Center in Fort Worth, and final assembly of the aircraft will take place in Amarillo.