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...continues atThe last ‘white-tail’ from Boeing’s Long Beach, California facility,
is currently being fitted with India-specific systems in San Antonio, Texas,
and will join 81 Squadron, ‘Sky Lords’ in August-September 2019.
India won a scrappy three-way joust against Qatar and Australia to grab the final airframe in March 2018,
though the win was still a bitter one —
procedural red tap had constrained the Indian Air Force from procuring
at least three of the last few jets to roll out of Boeing’s now shuttered heavy jet shop.
Having to settle for just the one, India will be paying $262 million for the last jet.
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