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Chinook win validates new way of doing business at Honeywell
Honeywell Aerospace has spent the past couple of years restructuring its activities along customer lines.

Honeywell Aerospace has spent the past couple of years restructuring its activities along customer lines. One indication that this approach may be working is the U.S. group’s latest double-win on the Boeing CH-47 Chinook program. In January, Honeywell and Boeing signed an agreement with the Royal Netherlands Air Force for the delivery of six Chinooks fitted with both Honeywell T55-L714-A engines and Honeywell’s Avionics Control and Management System glass cockpit.

“It’s an important win for us,” Honeywell vice president of commercial and military helicopters Vicky Panhuise told Aviation International News. “This is the first time that this engine and this glass cockpit are paired on a helicopter.”

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