wrote:
St Augustine or Cecil Field? I don't recall anywhere at St. A where
one would build airplanes.
Walt BJ

Hey, just read the press release I cited, which says the new aircraft was
rolled out at the Northrop Grumman facility at St. Augustine. For more
confirmation, see this press release:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/050707/1129965.html?.v=1

" The St. Augustine plant has about 1,300 workers. The plant makes the E-2
Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft for the U.S. Navy and major
assemblies for the EA-6B Prowler and other military aircraft. "

So far as I know there is no aircraft manufacturing activity yet at the
former NAS Cecil Field. Embraer is (or was) building an assembly hangar
there, but I don't know how the recent news that the Army is dropping the
ERJ 145 for the Airborne Common Sensor program is going to impact that. If
they adopt the larger EMB 190, probably it goes ahead. If they switch to a
different platform, Embraer probably walks away from the hangar.

http://www.flightinternational.com/A...5+for+ACS.html

OB ram.naval: This news would seem to make it more likely that the Navy will
bite the bullet and repackage the ACS sensors into a P-8 (Boeing 737)
airframe for the EP-3 replacement requirement.

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