“We are likely to cease production around the 2025 timeframe,” confirms Bernd Peters, air dominance vice-president business development for Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The company had in February 2023 said that securing a new international order for the type would potentially enable it to continue manufacturing activities until 2027.
“We’re extremely proud of the offer we put forward to India,” Peters told FlightGlobal at the Royal International Air Tattoo in the UK on 14 July, one day after New Delhi had announced its selection of Dassault Aviation’s Rafale M.
Remaining production of the Super Hornet at Boeing’s St. Louis site in Missouri will be for the US Navy, with the service’s concluding order still being negotiated.
Although production of the Super Hornet is nearing conclusion, Peters notes that the airframer is investing for a long future in the air dominance sector, even as the USAF makes preparations to acquire a so-called sixth-generation platform.
Source: Flightglobal
