Seattle-based Boeing and India's Navy signed a $100-million contract, that requires Boeing to maintain spare parts and personnel in India, ready to respond to any defects or failures in the P-8I fleet over the next three years. This 'performance-based logistics' contract requires Boeing to continue the warranty services it has...
India’s Navy Accepts another Boeing P-8i Reconnaissance Aircraft
India’s Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar flew in to INS Rajali, Arakkonam, India’s premiere Naval Air Station in southern India, approximately 43 miles from Chennai on board a Boeing P-8I from Port Blair the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India. The minister described the long...
India’s Defense Acquisition Council Approves P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The Indian Defense Acquisition Council has approved 4 additional Boeing P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft for $762 million for the Indian Navy. This order supplements the existing fleet of 8 such aircraft, reports Defense World. A variant of the Poseidon operated by the U.S. Navy, the P-8I is designed...
India starts receving P-8i surveillance aircraft
According to Aviation Week, India's first delivery of an 'in-country' Boeing P8-i aircraft this month will be followed by two further aircraft in the third and fourth quarters of the year. India has eight P-8Is on firm order and Boeing is optimistic that options on a further four could be...
Boeing C-17 enters acceptance testing for India
India’s first C-17 has entered flight acceptance testing by the U.S. Air force at Edwards AFB, California, as part of a fast-track foreign military sales (FMS) program that will see four other deliveries to India’s Hindon Air Force Station near New Delhi this year. Only the first aircraft will be...
Boeing hopes for up to $10 billion of orders of P8-i Aircraft from India
On New Year's Day in 2009, the Indian Navy announced the $2.1 billion purchase of eight Boeing P-8i Poseidon aircraft. The first of these modified 737s have already been delivered as of last month. According to a report in the Business Standard newspaper, The P8-Is will operate from INS Rajali,...