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Boeing Plans Rollout of First Apache Block III

Boeing was awarded a $247 million contract last October to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the Apache Block III.

AH-64D Block II Apache maneuvers over Arizona desert earlier this year. Boeing will roll out the first Apache Block III in November. (Photo: Bill Carey)

October 17, 2011

Boeing plans a November 2 rollout ceremony in Mesa, Ariz., for the first upgraded AH-64D Apache Block III destined for the U.S. Army. Ten of the latest Apaches are advancing through production, David Koopersmith, Boeing vice president of attack helicopter programs, said October 10 during a briefing at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Boeing was awarded a $247 million contract last October to begin low-rate initial production (LRIP) of the Apache Block III. The LRIP phase covers 51 aircraft. The Army plans to acquire a total of 690 Apache Block IIIs through 2027, most of them remanufactured Block Is and IIs, but with 56 newly built aircraft to replace training and combat losses. The older Apaches are disassembled by Science Engineering Services near Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., and then shipped to the Boeing Global Strike facility in Mesa.

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