Navy orders one E-2D radar and maritime patrol aircraft from Northrop Grumman in $148.3 million deal

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye - photo US Navy

March 2, 2015 By John Keller - militaryaerospace.com

PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 2 March 2015. U.S. Navy aviation experts are ordering one advanced E-2D maritime patrol and air control aircraft from its manufacturer, Northrop Grumman Corp., under terms of a $148.3 million contract modification announced Friday.

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are asking the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems segment in Melbourne, Fla., to provide one E-2D full rate production advanced Hawkeye radar surveillance aircraft.

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