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$208,393,856

Department of Transportation·Federal Aviation Administration

to TEXTRON AVIATION INC

aerospaceactive
WORK BEGAN2026-05-21·LATEST ACTION2026-05-21·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_6973GH26F00864_6920_6973GH23D00122_6920
Award description

PROCURE MODIFIED COMMERCIAL KING AIR 360ER AIRCRAFT - FPFM

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

FAA procures modified Textron King Air 360ER aircraft for federal operations over two years.

Sub-sectors
civil-aviationaircraft-procurementfaa-operations
Why this matters

Supports FAA's airborne mission capability (surveillance, inspection, emergency response) with modern turboprop platforms.

Supply-chain signal

Textron Aviation benefits from sustained federal demand; signals continued investment in domestic general-aviation manufacturing.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. procurement of domestically-built turboprops reinforces American aerospace industrial base against foreign competition.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-23. Cost: $0.002734.

Period of performance
Start
2026-05-21
End
2028-05-30
Status
activein 720 days
Sources

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