Beechcraft gets $16.6 million modification contract from Air Force
The Air Force has awarded Hawker Beechcraft Corp., a $16.6 million modification to a previously awarded contract for contractor logistics support for the Iraq Peace Dragon King Air 350 Program, according to the Department of Defense.
Hawker Beechcraft, which became Beechcraft Corp., was sold to Textron in March.
The modification exercises a second option year, the Defense Department said.
The work will be done in Iraq and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2015, it said.
The modification contract, which came from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, involves foreign military sales.
In 2007, Beechcraft, then Raytheon Aircraft Co., won a $132 million Air Force contract to supply six twin-turboprop King Airs for the Peace Dragon program, including five intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planes and one transport version.
The company provides ongoing maintenance and other support for the aircraft.
The King Airs were developed for special mission applications.
Planes in the Peace Dragon program have been equipped with heavyweight landing gear, long range nacelle-mounted fuel tanks and have undergone other airframe modifications.
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Beechcraft has helped support the Iraqi Air Force by managing logistics support operations, such as staffing dedicated maintenance teams, operating a contractor operated maintenance base supply warehouse, providing a cost per flight hour model and training maintenance technicians.
This story was originally published September 23, 2014 at 7:57 AM with the headline "Beechcraft gets $16.6 million modification contract from Air Force."