PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - The C27's are a coming
View Single Post
Old 22nd Dec 2011, 23:06
  #8 (permalink)  
BBadanov
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Land of Oz
Posts: 564
Received 9 Likes on 5 Posts
Lockheed was involved in the initial C-27J design process (hence the C-130J systems commonality) but dropped out in the early 2000s when the projected numbers failed to materialise. Boeing was going to be prime for the ~138 order USAF/Army JCA, but dropped out when JCA was wound back.
I believe only 38 aircraft have been ordered by the USAF for ANG use, but not all these have been funded. From what I can determine, L3 'production' so far has only been around 20 aircraft.
BBadanov is offline